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"> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/150038.Cassandra_Clare"> <img alt="Cassandra Clare" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1689347318i/150038._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission."<br />"Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered.<br />"Selling them on what?"<br />Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Cassandra Clare, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_256683> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2267189">City of Bones</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/clary-fray">clary-fray</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/ebay">ebay</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/jace-wayland">jace-wayland</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/30708-don-t-touch-any-of-my-weapons-without-my-permission-well">9808 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div data-react-class="ReactComponents.NativeAd" data-react-props="{"adId":"","className":"googleNativeAd--quotesPage","isMobile":false,"isNewsfeed":false,"signedIn":false,"allowBehavioralTargeting":null,"trackingOptions":{"enableTracking":true,"adId":""}}"></div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/15872.Rick_Riordan"> <img alt="Rick Riordan" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1679846356i/15872._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Can you surf really well, then?"<br />I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh.<br />"Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried."<br />He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn't answer that one.) If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? (I tried not to strangle Nico for asking that one.) Was Annabeth my girlfriend? (At this point, I was ready to stick the kid in a meat-flavored sack and throw him to the wolves.)” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Rick Riordan </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/annabeth-chase">annabeth-chase</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/athena">athena</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/funny">funny</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/humor">humor</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/mythology">mythology</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/olympians">olympians</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/percy-jackson">percy-jackson</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/posiedon">posiedon</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/the-lightning-thief">the-lightning-thief</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/zeus">zeus</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/168680-can-you-surf-really-well-then-i-looked-at-grover">2752 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/1938.Friedrich_Nietzsche"> <img alt="Friedrich Nietzsche" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651474065i/1938._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Friedrich Nietzsche, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_12322> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/440175">Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/atheism">atheism</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/belief">belief</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/blind">blind</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/blind-faith">blind-faith</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/blindness">blindness</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/christian-faith">christian-faith</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/christian-miracle">christian-miracle</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/critical-thinking">critical-thinking</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/critical-thought">critical-thought</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/death-of-reason">death-of-reason</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/doubt">doubt</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/doubt-is-sin">doubt-is-sin</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/eternity">eternity</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/existence">existence</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/foundation-of-belief">foundation-of-belief</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/human-nature">human-nature</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/intoxication">intoxication</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/meaning">meaning</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/meaning-of-life">meaning-of-life</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/metaphor">metaphor</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/miracle">miracle</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/nature">nature</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/origin">origin</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/philosophy">philosophy</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/purpose">purpose</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/purpose-of-life">purpose-of-life</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/reason">reason</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/reflection">reflection</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/religious-faith">religious-faith</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/resurrection">resurrection</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/resurrection-of-jesus">resurrection-of-jesus</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/sin">sin</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/sinful">sinful</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/thinking">thinking</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/thoughts">thoughts</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/wasted-life">wasted-life</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/129879-doubt-as-sin-christianity-has-done-its-utmost-to">1084 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/22393.Naomi_Wolf"> <img alt="Naomi Wolf" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Naomi Wolf, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_39926> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/836516">The Beauty Myth</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/beauty">beauty</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/control">control</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/diet">diet</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fad">fad</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/feminism">feminism</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/feminist">feminist</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/food">food</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/obedience">obedience</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/540985-a-culture-fixated-on-female-thinness-is-not-an-obsession">546 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/58.Frank_Herbert"> <img alt="Frank Herbert" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1591018335i/58._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Frank Herbert, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_234225> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/3634639">Dune</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/greatness">greatness</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/pretension">pretension</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/sardonic">sardonic</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/111899-greatness-is-a-transitory-experience-it-is-never-consistent-it">427 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/3047.John_F_Kennedy"> <img alt="John F. Kennedy" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1498639086i/3047._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.<br /><br /><i>[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]</i>” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> John F. Kennedy </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/ideas">ideas</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/lies">lies</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/opinion">opinion</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/thought">thought</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/truth">truth</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/14892-the-great-enemy-of-truth-is-very-often-not-the">416 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/20105.Joseph_Campbell"> <img alt="Joseph Campbell" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1429114498i/20105._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Joseph Campbell </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/inspirational">inspirational</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/journalism">journalism</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/story">story</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/truth-telling">truth-telling</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/202126-myth-is-much-more-important-and-true-than-history-history">412 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/20105.Joseph_Campbell"> <img alt="Joseph Campbell" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1429114498i/20105._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Joseph Campbell, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_324205> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/314907">Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/atheists">atheists</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/believers">believers</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/metaphor">metaphor</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/organized-religion">organized-religion</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/religion">religion</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/theists">theists</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/41441-half-the-people-in-the-world-think-that-the-metaphors">387 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/22665.Diane_Setterfield"> <img alt="Diane Setterfield" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1533836832i/22665.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Diane Setterfield, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_40440> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/849453">The Thirteenth Tale</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/birth">birth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/children">children</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/story">story</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/truth">truth</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/17254-all-children-mythologise-their-birth-it-is-a-universal-trait">303 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/1673.Thomas_Jefferson"> <img alt="Thomas Jefferson" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1400443180i/1673._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding...<br /><br />{<i>Letter to <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1480.John_Adams" title="John Adams" rel="nofollow noopener">John Adams</a>, April 11, 1823</i>}” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Thomas Jefferson, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_4925659> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/4991260">Letters of Thomas Jefferson</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/fable">fable</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/father">father</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/freedom-of-thought">freedom-of-thought</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/irreligion">irreligion</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/jupiter">jupiter</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/minerva">minerva</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/reason">reason</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/supreme-being">supreme-being</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/united-states">united-states</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/virgin">virgin</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/virgin-birth">virgin-birth</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/110347-and-the-day-will-come-when-the-mystical-generation-of">264 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/13695109.Roshani_Chokshi"> <img alt="Roshani Chokshi" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1544538355i/13695109._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Make yourself a myth and live within it, so that you belong to no one but yourself.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Roshani Chokshi, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_39863498> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/53547018">The Gilded Wolves</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/advice">advice</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/empowerment">empowerment</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/9654345-make-yourself-a-myth-and-live-within-it-so-that">187 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/156323.Robert_G_Ingersoll"> <img alt="Robert G. Ingersoll" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1390073198i/156323._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Robert G. Ingersoll, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_7549976> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/9843241">The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/action">action</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/eden">eden</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/faith">faith</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/garden-of-eden">garden-of-eden</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/ignorance">ignorance</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/knowledge">knowledge</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/religion">religion</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/skepticism">skepticism</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/superstition">superstition</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/thought">thought</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/tree-of-knowledge">tree-of-knowledge</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/153832-give-me-the-storm-and-tempest-of-thought-and-action">180 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/453232.Lisa_Kaniut_Cobb"> <img alt="Lisa Kaniut Cobb" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1626896290i/453232._UY200_CR4,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Josh gathered his sense of injustice and faced Rodan Man-to-man, or rather, elk-to-elk, no, Netah-to-Netah.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Lisa Kaniut Cobb, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_208354245> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/214484890">Down in the Valley</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/coming-of-age">coming-of-age</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/danger">danger</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/discovery">discovery</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/drama">drama</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fantasy">fantasy</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/page-turner">page-turner</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/romance">romance</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/wildlife">wildlife</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/ya-literature">ya-literature</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/12159178-josh-gathered-his-sense-of-injustice-and-faced-rodan-man-to-man">175 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/669810.Jeaniene_Frost"> <img alt="Jeaniene Frost" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1310062695i/669810._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Jeaniene Frost, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_6871616> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/7096800">Eternal Kiss of Darkness</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/humor">humor</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/kira">kira</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/mencheres">mencheres</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/vampires">vampires</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/282958-first-bubble-baths-now-disney-parks-you-re-shattering-every-creep">159 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " 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href="/work/quotes/214484890">Down in the Valley</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/drama">drama</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/emotional">emotional</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fear">fear</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/friendship">friendship</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/memories">memories</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/mystery">mystery</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/natural-world">natural-world</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/pain">pain</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/teen-fiction">teen-fiction</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/12159171-josh-tasted-the-decaying-leaves-of-autumn-in-the-cold">133 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/1127.Ovid"> <img alt="Ovid" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651504074i/1127._UX200_CR0,14,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus resolved, to cosmic parts, he first moulded the Earth into the form of a mighty ball so that it might be of like form on every side … And, that no region might be without its own forms of animate life, the stars and divine forms occupied the floor of heaven, the sea fell to the shining fishes for their home, Earth received the beasts, and the mobile air the birds … Then Man was born:… though all other animals are prone, and fix their gaze upon the earth, he gave to Man an uplifted face and bade him stand erect and turn his eyes to heaven.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Ovid, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_1715> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2870411">Metamorphoses</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/creation">creation</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/creation-myth">creation-myth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/history">history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/literature">literature</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/mythology">mythology</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/roman">roman</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/65609-when-he-whoever-of-the-gods-it-was-had-thus">130 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <div class="quoteText"> “Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Simona Panova, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_18388163> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/26009174">Nightmarish Sacrifice</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/attract">attract</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/attraction">attraction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/attractive">attractive</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/balance">balance</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/beautiful">beautiful</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/beauty">beauty</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/bewitch">bewitch</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/bewitched">bewitched</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/bewitching">bewitching</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/boy">boy</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/character">character</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/character-description">character-description</a>, <a 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It was the myth of a rainy night.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Jack Kerouac, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_70401> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/1701188">On the Road</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/rain">rain</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/rainy-night">rainy-night</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/297714-it-was-a-rainy-night-it-was-the-myth-of">115 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/3956.Christopher_Hitchens"> <img alt="Christopher Hitchens" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1434046956i/3956._UY200_CR23,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins thinks maybe a quarter-of-a-million. I'll take 100,000. In order to be a Christian, you have to believe that for 98,000 years, our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in childbirth, most other people having a life expectancy of about 25 years, dying of their teeth. Famine, struggle, bitterness, war, suffering, misery, all of that for 98,000 years.<br /><br />Heaven watches this with complete indifference. And then 2000 years ago, thinks 'That's enough of that. It's time to intervene,' and the best way to do this would be by condemning someone to a human sacrifice somewhere in the less literate parts of the Middle East. Don't lets appeal to the Chinese, for example, where people can read and study evidence and have a civilization. Let's go to the desert and have another revelation there. This is nonsense. It can't be believed by a thinking person.<br /><br />Why am I glad this is the case? To get to the point of the wrongness of Christianity, because I think the teachings of Christianity are immoral. The central one is the most immoral of all, and that is the one of vicarious redemption. You can throw your sins onto somebody else, vulgarly known as scapegoating. In fact, originating as scapegoating in the same area, the same desert. I can pay your debt if I love you. I can serve your term in prison if I love you very much. I can volunteer to do that. I can't take your sins away, because I can't abolish your responsibility, and I shouldn't offer to do so. Your responsibility has to stay with you. There's no vicarious redemption. There very probably, in fact, is no redemption at all. It's just a part of wish-thinking, and I don't think wish-thinking is good for people either.<br /><br />It even manages to pollute the central question, the word I just employed, the most important word of all: the word love, by making love compulsory, by saying you MUST love. You must love your neighbour as yourself, something you can't actually do. You'll always fall short, so you can always be found guilty. By saying you must love someone who you also must fear. That's to say a supreme being, an eternal father, someone of whom you must be afraid, but you must love him, too. If you fail in this duty, you're again a wretched sinner. This is not mentally or morally or intellectually healthy.<br /><br />And that brings me to the final objection - I'll condense it, Dr. Orlafsky - which is, this is a totalitarian system. If there was a God who could do these things and demand these things of us, and he was eternal and unchanging, we'd be living under a dictatorship from which there is no appeal, and one that can never change and one that knows our thoughts and can convict us of thought crime, and condemn us to eternal punishment for actions that we are condemned in advance to be taking. All this in the round, and I could say more, it's an excellent thing that we have absolutely no reason to believe any of it to be true.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Christopher Hitchens </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/ancient-myth">ancient-myth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/atheism">atheism</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/atheist">atheist</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/atheist-argument">atheist-argument</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/belief">belief</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/christianity-is-immoral">christianity-is-immoral</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/christopher-hitchens">christopher-hitchens</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/compulsory">compulsory</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/crime">crime</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/dawkins">dawkins</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/debate">debate</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/dictatorship">dictatorship</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/divine-dictatorship">divine-dictatorship</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/eternal-father">eternal-father</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/eternal-punishment">eternal-punishment</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/ethics">ethics</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/evidence">evidence</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fear">fear</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/great-atheist-argument">great-atheist-argument</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/guilt">guilt</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/health">health</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/hitchens">hitchens</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/hitchslap">hitchslap</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/homo-sapiens">homo-sapiens</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/human-sacrifice">human-sacrifice</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/immoral-christianity">immoral-christianity</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/indifference">indifference</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/intellect">intellect</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/love">love</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/love-your-neighbor">love-your-neighbor</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/morality">morality</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/reason">reason</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/redemption">redemption</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/responsibility">responsibility</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/richard-dawkins">richard-dawkins</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/supreme-being">supreme-being</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/totalitarianism">totalitarianism</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/truth">truth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/wishful-thinking">wishful-thinking</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/919133-let-s-say-that-the-consensus-is-that-our-species-being">114 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/20105.Joseph_Campbell"> <img alt="Joseph Campbell" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1429114498i/20105._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Myth is what we call other people's religion.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Joseph Campbell </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/religion">religion</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/112690-myth-is-what-we-call-other-people-s-religion">109 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <div class="quoteText"> “Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Anonymous </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/deceit">deceit</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/funny">funny</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/humor">humor</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/lies">lies</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/skeptic">skeptic</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/skepticism">skepticism</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/wishful-thinking">wishful-thinking</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/879578-religion-is-like-a-blind-man-looking-in-a-black">101 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/919.Virgil"> <img alt="Virgil" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651476219i/919._UX200_CR0,8,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love,<br />hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood,<br />consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [...]<br />His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling--<br />no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Virgil, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_12914> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/288738">The Aeneid</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/aeneas">aeneas</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/greek">greek</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/mythology">mythology</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/the-aeneid">the-aeneid</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/trojan">trojan</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/troy">troy</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/virgil">virgil</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/575972-but-the-queen--too-long-she-has-suffered-the-pain-of">64 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/18521.James_Hillman"> <img alt="James Hillman" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1291389852i/18521.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Each life is formed by its unique image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny. As the force of fate, this image acts as a personal daimon, an accompanying guide who remembers your calling.<br /><br />The daimon motivates. It protects. It invents and persists with stubborn fidelity. It resists compromising reasonableness and often forces deviance and oddity upon its keeper, especially when neglected or opposed. It offers comfort and can pull you into its shell, but it cannot abide innocence. It can make the body ill. It is out of step with time, finding all sorts of faults, gaps, and knots in the flow of life - and it prefers them. It has affinities with myth, since it is itself a mythical being and thinks in mythical patterns.<br /><br />It has much to do with feelings of uniqueness, of grandeur and with the restlessness of the heart, its impatience, its dissatisfaction, its yearning. It needs its share of beauty. It wants to be seen, witnessed, accorded recognition, particularly by the person who is its caretaker. Metaphoric images are its first unlearned language, which provides the poetic basis of mind, making possible communication between all people and all things by means of metaphors” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> James Hillman </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/jung">jung</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/metaphor">metaphor</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/390116-each-life-is-formed-by-its-unique-image-an-image">61 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/156323.Robert_G_Ingersoll"> <img alt="Robert G. Ingersoll" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1390073198i/156323._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “This century will be called <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12793.Darwin" title="Darwin" rel="nofollow noopener">Darwin</a>'s century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has explained more of the phenomena of life than all of the religious teachers. Write the name of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12793.Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin" rel="nofollow noopener">Charles Darwin</a> on the one hand and the name of every theologian who ever lived on the other, and from that name has come more light to the world than from all of those. His doctrine of evolution, his doctrine of the survival of the fittest, his doctrine of the origin of species, has removed in every thinking mind the last vestige of orthodox Christianity. He has not only stated, but he has demonstrated, that the inspired writer knew nothing of this world, nothing of the origin of man, nothing of geology, nothing of astronomy, nothing of nature; that the Bible is a book written by ignorance--at the instigation of fear. Think of the men who replied to him. Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12793.Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin" rel="nofollow noopener">Charles Darwin</a>, and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task. He was held up to the ridicule, the scorn and contempt of the Christian world, and yet when he died, England was proud to put his dust with that of her noblest and her grandest. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12793.Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin" rel="nofollow noopener">Charles Darwin</a> conquered the intellectual world, and his doctrines are now accepted facts. His light has broken in on some of the clergy, and the greatest man who to-day occupies the pulpit of one of the orthodox churches, Henry Ward Beecher, is a believer in the theories of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12793.Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin" rel="nofollow noopener">Charles Darwin</a>--a man of more genius than all the clergy of that entire church put together.<br /><br />...The church teaches that man was created perfect, and that for six thousand years he has degenerated. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12793.Darwin" title="Darwin" rel="nofollow noopener">Darwin</a> demonstrated the falsity of this dogma. He shows that man has for thousands of ages steadily advanced; that the Garden of Eden is an ignorant myth; that the doctrine of original sin has no foundation in fact; that the atonement is an absurdity; that the serpent did not tempt, and that man did not 'fall.'<br /><br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12793.Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin" rel="nofollow noopener">Charles Darwin</a> destroyed the foundation of orthodox Christianity. There is nothing left but faith in what we know could not and did not happen. Religion and science are enemies. One is a superstition; the other is a fact. One rests upon the false, the other upon the true. One is the result of fear and faith, the other of investigation and reason.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Robert Green Ingersoll, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_9315017> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/14198137">Lectures of Col. R.G. 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And you should know what your myth is because it might be a tragedy and maybe you dont want it to be.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Carl Jung </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/drama">drama</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/inspirational-quotes">inspirational-quotes</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/myth">myth</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/9664939-everybody-acts-out-a-myth-but-very-few-people-know">51 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/4388704.Mitchell_Heisman"> <img alt="Mitchell Heisman" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1419201376i/4388704._CR0,19,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “There is a very popular opinion that choosing life is inherently superior to choosing death. 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