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

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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. – George Orwell

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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. – George Orwell

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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

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

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. – Italo Calvino

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

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