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• 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.

  Unknown

  Topics in Belief, Truth

  Tags in Illusions, Myth, Acceptance

• No I don’t think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it’s going to get worse and worse.

  Lester Bangs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Recession, Myth, Worse

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

  Paul Ricoeur

  Tags in Explanation, Myth

• MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Tags in Myth

• As a rule the myth is no explanation of the origin of the ritual to any one who does not believe it to be a narrative of real occurrences, and the boldest mythologist will not believe that.

  William Robertson Smith

  Tags in Myth

• 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

  Tags in Illusions, Myth

• Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Tags in Myth

• If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Tags in Myth

• Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Tags in Myth

• The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Myth

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

  Alan Wilson Watts

  Tags in Myth

• 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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Tags in Myth

• It is, therefore, a mistake to regard myth as an inferior mode of thought, which can be cast aside when human beings have attained the age of reason. Mythology is not an early attempt at history, and does not claim that its tales are objective fact. Like a novel, an opera or a ballet, myth is make-believe; it is a game that transfigures our fragmented, tragic world, and helps us to glimpse new possibilities by asking ‘what if?’ — a question which has also provoked some of our most important discoveries in philosophy, science and technology.

  Karen Armstrong

  Tags in Myth

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

  James Feibleman

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Myth

• 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

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Myth

• The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.

  John C. Maxwell

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Effectiveness, Myth

• 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

  Topics in History, Truth

  Tags in Myth

• Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Belief, Truth

  Tags in Myth

• Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.

  Brad Holland

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Myth