Quotes tagged Myths
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“Thousands of years ago, a great darkness fell. The war between good and evil has ended. And it has ended with the complete triumph of evil and a total, irrevocable extermination of good. Evil is cunning — it quickly splits itself into two, into apparent good and evil, so that mankind is under the delusion that the great conflict is still raging and it will not go in search of the truth.”The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“If the world is the myth of the senses, there is something pointless about all arts. Whom will you read, what will you write, what music will you listen to, what can move you, what can you adore when nothing is true?”The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“In search of social belonging, and the blessed shortcuts that we can take when we’re in the presence of like-minded people, we come to rely on keywords, and then metaphors, and then myths — and at every stage habits become more deeply ingrained in us, habits that inhibit our ability to think.”How to Think
