Culture Quote by Marco Vassi

“The uniquely human ability to collectively believe in myths allows strangers to cooperate.”

— FastReads

“Since large-scale human cooperation is based on myths, the way people cooperate can be altered by changing the myths – by telling different stories.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Any large-scale human cooperation - whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe - is rooted in common…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— David Foster Wallace

Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives, so long…

— Joseph Campbell

“Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths. Any”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Find your myth. As Joseph Campbell observed, "Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural…

— Robert Moss

“fiction has enabled us not merely to imagine things, but to do so collectively. We can weave common myths such as the biblical creation…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“This is why myth is experienced as innocent speech: not because its intentions are hidden—if they were hidden, they could not be efficacious—but because…

— Roland Barthes

“Of all difficulties which impede the progress of thought, and the formation of well-grounded opinions on life and social arrangements, the greatest is now…

— John Stuart Mill

“Peace as rumor and hope as the stuff of myth is the manifestation of the person who cannot see beyond the short horizon of…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough