Myth Quotes - Page 4

The value of failure is greatly over-rated. It's a preposterous myth.

The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.

Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.

Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream.

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

Religon is misunderstood mythology

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

We're separated by our myths.

For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality.

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.

In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.

If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.

I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents