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I can't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand, who lodg...

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In ancient times, people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female...

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After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects ...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

There were formerly horizons within which people lived and thought and mythologized. There are now n...

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One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. T...

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We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who be...

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Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible...

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Myths tell us what those like us have done, can do, should do. Without myths to lead the way, we hes...

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So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And w...

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- The myths are dead. The gods are dead. The ghosts and ghouls and phantoms are dead. There is only ...

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Neil GaimanFables and Reflections

I did not want to think about people. I wanted the trees, the scents and colors, the shifting shadow...

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I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. ...

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I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. ...

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I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. ...

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I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. ...

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The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions (and most others)...

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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give signifi...

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There are those whose views about religion are not very different from my own, but who nevertheless ...

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Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover th...

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To animals they were just the weather, just part of everything. But humans arose and gave them names...

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The black thing in her brain and the dark water on the page were the same thing, a form of knowledge...

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The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a...

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Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stori...

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Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly ...

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I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental...

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A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, ac...

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New Rule: Never underestimate the ability of a tiny fringe group of losers to ruin everything. We've...

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Bill MaherThe New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star.I'd rather be the North s...

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BonoBono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas

Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native ...

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Carl SaganBroca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

It is certainly true that all beliefs and all myths are worthy of a respectful hearing. It is not tr...

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Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Si...

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What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum ...

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