Life Quote by Bertrand Russell

There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.…

— Bertrand Russell

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.…

— Bertrand Russell

Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not…

— Epicurus

“For man seems to be unable to live without myth, without the belief that the routine and drudgery, the pain and fear of this…

— Alan Wilson Watts

He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.

— Octavio Paz

“Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended.”

— Peter Burke

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

— Oscar Wilde

We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we…

— Marlon Brando

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

— Cesare Pavese

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

— Khaled Hosseini

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

— Plato