Quote by George Orwell
Myths which are believed in tend to become true. - George Orwell

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

Other quotes by George Orwell

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. – George Orwell

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God
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. – George Orwell

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Men
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The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. – George Orwell

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Time
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Other Quotes from
Myths, Mythology
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One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. – Mrs. Humphrey Ward

He said myths and mythology wasnt to give meaning to life but to give us an experience of life, an experience of vitality in being alive. – Joseph Campbell

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

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

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It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad. – La Rochefoucauld, Reflections, 1665

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If you ate pasta and antipasto, would you still be hungry? – Author Unknown

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My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way. – Robert Carlyle

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AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. – Susan Sontag

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