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“What I find more remarkable, however, is how readily many people in our society believe outlandish and unsubstantiated urban myths and conspiracies (Pop Rocks and Coke, JFK assassination, AIDS is man-made, etc.), yet disregard thousands of personal and consistent testimonies of miracles and near-death experiences from people throughout all cultures and religions.”

“Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we weave the narratives of myth and folk tale into our daily existence.”

Made Existence Our Lives Century Ancient Folks Myth Tales Narrative Transformed Fabric

Book:Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale

Source: Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale

“Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may be, have become as important to the English imagination as the Greek Myths to the Greek imagination; and many plays by many poets would have woven it into a single story whose contours, vast as those of Greek myth, would have made living men and women seem like swallows building their nests under the architrave of some Temple of the Giants.”

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays

“A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.”

People Thinking Made Myth Newspapers

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“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

“The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much myths as our own. On general principles of law and reason, there are no such 'nations.' ... Our pretended treaties, then, being made with no legitimate or bona fide nations, or representatives of nations, and being made, on our part, by persons who have no legitimate authority to act for us, have intrinsically no more validity than a pretended treaty made by the Man in the Moon with the king of the Pleiades.”

Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner

“The first reason for psychology's failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are generally the theoreticians on these matters, have essentially made up myths without any evidence to support them; the second reason for psychology's failure is that personality theory has looked for inner traits when it should have been looking for social context.”

People Should Firsts Has Beens Made Matter Reason Social Support Psychology Theory Personality Evidence Should Have Myth Traits Should Have Been Psychiatrist Clinicians

Author:Naomi Weisstein

“A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.”

Made Might Behinds Truth Is Myth Mythology Legends Vacuums Kernel

Author:Isaac Asimov