But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Christ and for chastity; it can be captured only by setting a virgin in the forest, so that the animal, catching her most chaste odor, will go and lay its head in her lap, offering itself as prey to the hunters' snares."
"So it is said, Adso. But many tend to believe that it's a fable, an invention of the pagans."
"What a disappointment," I said. "I would have liked to encounter one, crossing a wood. Otherwise what's the pleasure of crossing a wood?
Stichwörter: christianity religion symbolism fables mythology unicorns
My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had animals in it. They failed to mention that this was when God massacred all of humanity.
Donald MillerStichwörter: fables flood noah massacre
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. In fact, men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth — often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
HypatiaStichwörter: truth belief fight miracles teaching fables indoctrination myths misdirection fantasies intangible superstitions refutation
Without stories, we’d have even more trouble recognizing what’s real.
Amy NeftzgerStichwörter: truth reality stories fiction fables real tales
SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
Ambrose BierceStichwörter: humor funny myth definition fables revision legends revisionist
Somebody's been feeding the boy fables. Probably the king's niece. Humph. Nice girl. Too many romantic notions, though.
Patrick W. CarrStichwörter: romantic fables king
I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …It does not hurt them to read about good and evil, love and hate, life and death. Nor do I think they should read only about things that they understand. '…a man’s reach should exceed his grasp.' So should a child’s. For myself, I will never talk down to, or draw down to, children.
(from the author's acceptance speech for the Caldecott award)
Stichwörter: morals children literature child fables lessons childrens-books
We are Bears, We are Not Suppose too be Afraid of the Dark
Migdalia TorresStichwörter: fables storybooks toy-bears
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
LucretiusStichwörter: poetry poem meaning superstition fables myths legends
Science has never killed or persecuted a single person for doubting or denying its teaching, and most of these teaching have been true; but religion has murdered millions for doubting or denying her dogmas and most of these dogmas have been false.
All stories about gods and devils, of heavens and hells, as they do not conform to nature, and are not apparent to sense, should be rejected without consideration. Beyond the universe there is nothing and within the universe the supernatural does not and cannot exist.
Of all deceivers who have plagued mankind, none are so deeply ruinous to human happiness as those imposters who pretend to lead by a light above nature.
The lips of the dead are closed forever. There comes no voice from the tomb. Christianity is responsible for having cast the fable of eternal fire over almost every grave.
Stichwörter: science nature atheism heavens dogma hell fairy-tales atheist epitaph superstition gods fire fables supernatural threats devils hells eternal-torture atheist-epitaph stonecutter
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