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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
- Campbell Joseph

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
- Heller Robert

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
- Levi-Strauss Claude

The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative social values, raising tradition on a pedestal. It expresses and confirms, rather than explains or questions, the sources of cultural attitudes and values. Because myth anchors the present in the past it is a sociological charter for a future society which is an exact replica of the present one.
-Oakley Ann

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.
- Calvino Italo

The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.
- Strabo Mikhail

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
- Orwell George

There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.
- Ionesco Eugene

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
- Barthes Roland

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
- Feibleman James

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
- Guin Ursula K. Le

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
- Wilde Oscar

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
- Camus Albert

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
- Le Sueur Meridel

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
- Pritchett V. S.

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
- Bayley Stephen

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
- Marcus Greil

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
- Connolly Cyril

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
- Edman Irwin

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
- Kennedy John F.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
- Paglia Camille

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.
- Wolf Naomi

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
- Lawrence D. H.

The myths have always condemned those who looked back. Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
- Hammarskjold Dag

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Gandhi Mahatma

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
- Aquinas St. Thomas

Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of the rat race is not yet final.
-  Thompson Hunter S.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
- Alan Watts

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
- D. H. Lawrence

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
- E. L. Doctorow

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
- George Orwell

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
- Irwin Edman

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
- James Feibleman

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
- Joan D. Vinge

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.
- Joan D. Vinge

The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.
- John C. Maxwell

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.
- Joseph Campbell

As a rule the myth is no explanation of the origin of the ritual to any one who does not believe it to be a narrative of real occurrences, and the boldest mythologist will not believe that.
William Robertson Smith

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.
- Robert Fulghum