Aware Quote by Claude Levi-Strauss

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who…

— Denis Johnston

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

— Edith Hamilton

Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds,…

— Joseph Campbell

I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us…

— William Butler Yeats

I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision..."…

— Sheri S. Tepper

History is a myth that men agree to believe in.

— Anonymous

History is a myth that men agree to believe.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Myths may not satisfy the demands of rationality or science, but they contain profound wisdom - provided one believes they do and is willing…

— Devdutt Pattanaik

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

“The fact is that you are more comfortable with myth than man.”

— Nikki Grimes

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's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

— Philipp Meyer