Jackie Chan is a myth.
The reality is that you are the spirit. The rest is a myth.
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.
History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.
My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth, but by being accompanied by a second-order tradition-that of critically discussing the myth. . . . In a certain sense, science is myth-making just as religion is.
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.
When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.
The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.
The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that something is being achieved when in reality the artificially integrated circles are a soporfic to the blacks while salving the consciences of the few guilt-stricken whites.
If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.
Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.
One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.
I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.
