To believe a myth is as easy a thing as breathing the air. But holding one’s breath for a lifetime – that is difficult.
Myth Quotes
True myth may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blonde Hero – really look – and he turns into […]
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports that myth.
The Depth of your Mythology is the Extent of your Effectiveness.
Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had, – being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.
One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.
The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.
Fallen myths can instill venom.
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.
The transformations of culture do not take place in history. They take place in myth. It is because the individual cannot perceive in the limits of his own lifetime such transformations as the Neolithic or Industrial revolutions that we have need of myth. A model, a hypothesis or a myth is a way of rendering […]
