I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death
Robert Fulghum
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We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology
Carl Gustav Jung
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If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
Ray Bradbury
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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Ansel Adams
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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
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
D.H. Lawrence
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society
Naomi Wolf
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It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
Irwin Edman
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Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.
Italo Calvino
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The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.
Starhawk
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A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.
Gilbert Ryle
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The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
Mary Ritter Beard
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