- Nov 07, 2020
Myth Quotes
Where legend and history blur, and where clear thinking cuts through.
This collection looks at myth from several angles — the pull of legend in storytelling, family histories that fade into folklore, and the way popular retellings of the past can drift from what actually happened. It's a page about separating fact from long-told tales.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
- Conquerors
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a leftist myth that European conquerors and settlers encountered only peaceful, virtuous tribes and subdued them murderously in the name of Christianity and Capitalism.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one of the biggest myths is that education cannot flourish with regulation. Another myth is that wherever the state sponsors education, it doesn't flourish.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
- Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
American public policy is run on a myth.
- Parable
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Orpheus myth is my favorite myth, and the prodigal son is my favorite parable.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020