History Quote by Ernst Jünger

“A myth has been well described as something that in some sense happened once—but that also happens all the time. It is about timeless,…

— Karen Armstrong

“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal retelling of…

— Jonah Sachs

“Myth is the threshold of history.”

— Saidiya V. Hartman

“Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting.”

— Nancy Isenberg

“Myth took the place of objectively conceived history. Myth, Michel Tournier has said, is “history everyone already knows.”2 As such, history becomes nothing but…

— Modris Eksteins

“For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through…

— Julian Barnes

“In a nation whose great informing myth is that it has no great informing myth, familiarity equaled timelessness”

— David Foster Wallace

“Myths have always been archetypal realities, that through history or legend, remind the human being of his origin, his destiny, and the meaning of…

— Javier Cazañ

“Myth is stories about the way things never were, but always are.”

— Marcus Borg

Myth is sometimes more important than history.

— Adrian Dunbar

“Myth is not about whether something is fact or fiction; myth is more about truth. Good myth, according to the old adage, is about…

— Randy S. Woodley

“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.”

— Daikichi Irokawa