mythical beliefs Quotes

We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need.

Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.

We live in our myths, we only endure reality.

When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost every mythology sees the origins of life coming out of water. And, curiously, that's true. It's amusing that the origin of life out of water is in myths and then again, finally, in science, we find the same thing. It's exactly so.

You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.

The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

The people who think a guy walked on water versus the people who think a horse can fly.

According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.

Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.

Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

If people want to believe that our ancestors were riding around on dinosaurs or that the protracted, increasing, and devastating warming of the Earth is just nature doing its thing - I guess I feel I have more useful battles to fight.

Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention of experiments, but with the critical discussion of myths, and of magical techniques and practices.

It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.

The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing.

As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...

Myths and legends die hard in America.

The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.