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“People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that people in high tech societies receive neither strong myths and stories from their culture nor the ability to construct their own... they lose the plot.”

People Facts Stories Culture Strong Loses Ability Learning Teaching Hero Dues Myth Contemporary Plot Unhappiness Constructs Lifelong Heroines

Author:Guy Claxton

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”

Source: It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

“To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.”

Facts Deny Myth

Author:Gilbert Ryle

“There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential neighborhoods so long that when one of us is finally sold a home, it's already depreciated.”

Long Facts Home Property Myth Neighborhood Depreciate

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.”

Heart Facts Christianity Myth

Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.”

Facts Myth Consumers Corporations Servant Devices Powerless Puppets

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control.”

Kind Has Beens Sometimes Facts Interesting Study Becoming Conscious Longing Myth Conspiracy Becoming More Mute

Book:The Light of Other Days

Source: The Light of Other Days

“The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense.”

Made Reason Facts Difficult Myth Paradox Distressing New Knowledge

Book:The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

Source: The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

“Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.”

People Way Believe Facts Seems Refuse Available Myth Legends

Author:John Mason Brown

“The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.”

Ifs Has Beens Facts Body Form Loss Common Poet Ought Cost Musician Tools Stones Fundamentals Myth Superiors Painter Symbols Substance Savages Effectiveness Pierce

Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques

“Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those "easy speeches that comfort cruel men.”

Source: Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name

“The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. It happens - at a particular date, in a particular place, followed by definable historical consequences. We pass from a Balder or an Osiris, dying nobody knows when or where, to a historical Person crucified (it is all in order) under Pontius Pilate. By becoming fact it does not cease to be myth: that is the miracle.”

Knows Heart Persons Doe Facts Happens Earth Order Heaven Imagination Christianity Dying Particular Becoming Consequence Miracle Historical Myth Cease Legends Nobody Knows Osiris

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. Scratch a myth and find a fact.”

Thinking Long Facts Women Cold Myth Arguing Believer Scratches Fever True Believer

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.”

Art Facts Reality Romance Unions Myth Fancy Fusion

Author:Charles Burnett