Desire Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The tremendous historical need of our unsatisfied modern culture, the assembling around one of countless other cultures, the consuming desire for knowledge--what does all…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“the society that cherishes and keeps its myths alive will be nourished from the soundest, richest strata of the human spirit.”

— Joseph Campbell

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member…

— Rollo May

“I have come to believe that food is history of the deepest kind. Everything we eat tells a tale of ingenuity and creation, domination…

— Robin Sloan

“The most barbarous and the most fantastic rites and the strangest myths translate some human need, some aspect of life, either individual or social.”

— Émile Durkheim

“I know now that all people hunger for a noble, unsullied past, that as sure as the black nationalist dreams of a sublime Africa…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Myth is the threshold of history.”

— Saidiya V. Hartman

“The entire world is hungry. For one thing or another. They thirst. They hunger. They crave. Wine. Entertainment. Knowledge. Sometimes for the mundane work…

— Jackie Ivie

“People didn't realize it, but they needed myths to survive, just as much now as when their forebears were alive. Perhaps more. Mythology embodied…

— Charles de Lint

“A hunger for civilization is an appetite not easily appreciated now, when people are so overcivilized that they can only have a hunger for…

— G.K. Chesterton

“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

“We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic, national or…

— Karen Armstrong