#myths

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The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.


Colin Farrell


#countries #fortitude #incredible #lot #myths

I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.


Suzanne Farrell


#interesting #interesting people #languages #latin #like

The more real things get, the more like myths they become.


Rainer W. Fassbinder


#get #like #more #myths #real

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.


Alex Ferguson


#back #completely #exaggerated #gone #grow

Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.


Stanley Kunitz


#call #died #gods #heroes #mind

I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.


Bob Kane


#batman #down #explode #get #i

Those myths about Zeus and Hercules were always so real to me; I was crushed to discover that Mt. Olympus has been overshadowed by global warming.


Bauvard


#funny #greek-gods #humor #myths #funny

We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic, national or ideological tribe. We need myths that help us to realize the importance of compassion, which is not always regarded as sufficiently productive or efficient in our pragmatic, rational world. We need myths that help us to create a spiritual attitude, to see beyond our immediate requirements, and enable us to experience a transcendent value that challenges our solipsistic selfishness. We need myths that help us to venerate the earth as sacred once again, instead of merely using it as a 'resource.' This is crucial, because unless there is some kind of spiritual revolution that is able to keep abreast of our technological genius, we will not save our planet.


Karen Armstrong


#myths #revolution #spirituality #attitude

Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native myth? Can you be sure that the natives are not humoring you or pulling your leg? Bronislaw Malinowski thought he had discovered a people in the Trobriant Islands who had not worked out the connection between sexual intercourse and childbirth. When asked how children were conceived, they supplied him with an elaborate mythic structure prominently featuring celestial intervention. Amazed, Malinowski objected that was not how it was done at all, and supplied them instead with the version so popular in the West today – including a nine-month gestation period. “Impossible,” replied the Melanesians. “Do you not see that woman over there with her six-month-old child? Her husband has been on an extended voyage to another island for two years.” Is it more likely that the Melanesians were ignorant of the begetting of children or that they were gently chiding Malinowski? If some peculiar-looking stranger came into my town and asked ME where babies came from, I’d certainly be tempted to tell him about storks and cabbages. Prescientific people are people. Individually they are as clever as we are.


Carl Sagan


#cleverness #myths #people #primitive #humor

Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important door to the imagination


James Christensen


#door #imagination #legends #myths #progress