#myth

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#believe #chaos #darkness #greek #greek mythology

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#busy #communications #deal #dreams #great

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#many #mythical

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#believe #better #earth #else #lie

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#fancies #gain #human #human experience #lose

The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#myth #words #death

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#arrived #art #been #before #being

Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#assassinated #became #being #black #consider

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#hampered #must #myths #needs #today

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#had #i #modern #myth #read