We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.
We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is behind sacrifice. What you offer and what you destroy, it is that surplus which is life itself.
Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned
Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.
The gods are fugitive guests of literature.
The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster, he has yet neither power nor knowledge, the monster is his secret father who will invest him with a power and knowledge that can belong to one man only, and that only the monster can give.
He frames my face with his hands as he says, "Tess. Only you could be brave enough to die with me. But I want you to live for me. " We kiss, as desperate as though we were drowning. When our lips part, Alec says, "Forgive me.
State governments seek local remedies for the globally fabricated deprivations and miseries in vain - just as the individuals-by-the-decree-of-fate (read: by the impact of deregulation) seek in vain the individual solutions to the socially fabricated life problems.
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
I think that there are non-physical laws all right: genuine (if not strict) laws written in the language of biology, economics, and so on. But I don't regard that as a contentious issue. Even reductionists about chemistry will think that there are special chemical laws whose formulation makes essential use of chemical terminology.