myth quotes

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.

Jackie Chan is a myth.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist’s creativity comes from torment. Once that’s fixed, what do you draw on?

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

I dislike Allegory – the conscious and intentional allegory – yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

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

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.