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The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

Meridel Le Sueur

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs,alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself,he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

Jean Cocteau

Religions are all alike -- founded upon fables and mythologies

Thomas Jefferson

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Ray Bradbury

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

E. L. Doctorow

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.

Roy P. Basler

History is a myth that men agree to believe.

Napoleon

What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

Bertrand Russell

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

Jean Cocteau

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

Arthur M. Schlesinger

Affairs are loaded with romanticism, morality, mythology, and intense emotions.

Emily Brown

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

E. L. Doctorow

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

George Orwell

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

James Feibleman

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Joseph Campbell

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

Ansel Adams

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

John Boorman

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Roland Barthes

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

Albert Einstein

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.

Barbara Steele

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Jonathan Raban

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.

William Robertson Smith

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

Paul Ricoeur

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

William Robertson Smith

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

David Herbert Lawrence

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

John Carmack

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

Cocteau, Jean

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

Dustin Hoffman

There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.

Terri Windling

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