Logo
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

Other quotes by Irwin Edman
No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Myths, Mythology
category

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. – Mrs. Humphrey Ward

Category:
Myths, Mythology

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. – Salman Rushdie

Category:
Myths, Mythology

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. – Roland Barthes

Category:
Myths, Mythology

The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels. – Mikhail Strabo

Category:
Myths, Mythology

Random Quotes

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. – Ernst Fischer

Category:
Dreams

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see… the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world. – Arthur Erickson

Category:
Change

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. – Homer

Category:
Marriage

Destroy the roots of the healthiest plants, their heads will droop and die. Many excellent qualities of the mind have their roots, in fact, in the body: their summits, which adorn the spiritual being, the mind, will wither, if we neglect the soil of these valuable plants… – C.G. Salzmann, Gymnastics for Youth: or, A Practical Guide to Healthful and Amus

Category:
Body