Myth Quotes
Where legend and history blur, and where clear thinking cuts through.
This collection looks at myth from several angles — the pull of legend in storytelling, family histories that fade into folklore, and the way popular retellings of the past can drift from what actually happened. It's a page about separating fact from long-told tales.
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
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There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
American Quotes
It is a leftist myth that European conquerors and settlers encountered only peaceful, virtuous tribes and subdued them murderously in the name of Christianity and Capitalism.
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
Beautiful Quotes
I think one of the biggest myths is that education cannot flourish with regulation. Another myth is that wherever the state sponsors education, it doesn't flourish.
The Orpheus myth is my favorite myth, and the prodigal son is my favorite parable.
Education Quotes
The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.
Fantasy Quotes
I began to pick apart our knowledge of Frankenstein and discovered that the public's idea of this myth comes from a million different places... I became committed to recontextualizing it all so it all worked in one story.
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One quote even compares language itself to a museum of borrowed meanings. Continue with more reflective reading on our Education Quotes and Fantasy Quotes pages.
