Guides Quote by Jeff Bridges

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.

— Jeff Bridges

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

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

— Rollo May

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with…

— Amish Tripathi

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

— Wally Lamb

Our technology forces us to live mythically

— Marshall McLuhan

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

— Alan Watts

“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

The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with…

— Steve Stern

Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.

— Jeff Bridges

Human beings have always been mythmakers.

— Karen Armstrong

Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths

— Freeman Dyson