Human spirit Quote by Joseph Campbell

“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.”

— Tim Jackson

“What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

“We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant transition and…

— Richard Holloway

“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

“The wealth creators of neoliberal mythology are some of the most effective wealth destroyers the world has ever seen.”

— George Monbiot

“Only to say that the myths survive when everything else has been forgotten. And that sometimes the myths, for all their slippery deceptions, tell…

— Tom Harper

“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

“Only when people are free to worship, create, and build, only when they can decide their destiny and benefit from their own risks—only then…

— Paul Kengor

“Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Myth is the threshold of history.”

— Saidiya V. Hartman

“It matters what myths we tell ourselves -- which ideals we choose to honor.”

— Robert Roper