Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

I am attracted to myths.

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.