Quotes having the keyword Myth
The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.
by Robert Trout (Journalist, American , born in 1909) keywords: american, behind, easily, examining, example, how, jefferson, john, locke, myth, philosopher, philosophy, refuted, republic, steered , thomas The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.
by Robert Trout (Journalist, American , born in 1909) keywords: american, based, because, been, could, founding, history, influence, john, leibniz, locke, maintained, myth, only, philosophy, republic , suppressed It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.
by Paul Tsongas (Politician, American , born in 1941) keywords: academe, beyond, commencement, everything, fine, halls, happy, holds, hope, lie, myth, often, only, perpetuated, promise , worry Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.
by Joan D. Vinge (Author, American , born in 1948) keywords: body, clothed, could, deeper, each, easily, listeners, meaning, more, myth, naked, own, relate, storytellers, their, time , traditions Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.
by Joan D. Vinge (Author, American , born in 1948) keywords: being, escaped, fragment, goddess, had, head, here, myth, novel, perfect, somehow, sort, springboard, through, turned, wanted , write Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor.
by Claude Vorilhon (Celebrity, French , born in 1946) keywords: age, death, disease, embrace, fears, free, god, labor, liberate, mankind, myth, new, old, our, science, sweat, technologies, these, unfettered, us, which , will From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.
by Diane Wakoski (Poet, American , born in 1937) keywords: american, answer, aspects, aware, consider, cultural, doing, figure, good, into, know, myth, part, poet, poetry, previous, reading, those, thus , whether The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
by Robert Penn Warren (Novelist, American , born in 1905) topics: Poetry keywords: capacity, end, life, light, little, making, man, may, meaningful, myth, poem, rather, see, thing , which We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.
by George Weinberg (Psychologist , American) keywords: each, give, health, means, myth, others, part, personal, really, vision , want Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
by Robert Anton Wilson (Writer, American , born in 1932) keywords: angry, anyone, dares, grow, live, most, myth, tell, them, themselves, truth , violently There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.
by Terri Windling (Artist) keywords: been, bring, consciousness, fairy, fantasy, hard, hope, into, literature, media, myth, number, other, public, small, some, succeeding, tales, through, us, very, way , working 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.
by Naomi Wolf (Author, American , born in 1962) keywords: appearance, beauty, her, individualize, makes, matter, may, myth, observations, personal, problem, saying, she, society, taken, undermine, used, will , woman And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.
by Minoru Yamasaki (Architect, American , born in 1912) keywords: any, available, delight, everything, feel, gain, held, joy, myth, our, palette, parts, should, society , such 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.
by Thom Yorke (Musician, English , born in 1968) keywords: actually, believing, convenient, fundamentally, gradually, grew, myth, occurred, over, powerless, state, thatcher, then, under, up, very , years I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.
by Sarah Zettel (Author, American , born in 1966) keywords: better, easier, fantasy, folklore, internal, intuitive, myth, science, technology, than, understanding , way Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.
by Sarah Zettel (Author, American , born in 1966) keywords: american, any, course, expansion, frontier, glory, great, guilt, indians, myth, now, solar, system, thing, westward , without
