Quote by Irwin Edman
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rathe

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

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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. – Eugene Ionesco

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

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

Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a – Joseph Campbell

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