History Quote by Peter Burke Download Open image ““Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended.”” — Peter Burke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Myth Storytelling
“It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts; but it… — Edith Hamilton Mythology Copy Share Image
“you cannot organise masses of people effectively without relying on some fictional myths.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“There's always someone who secretly believes in myths and legends; or at least parts of them. Those are the people who will look beyond… — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
“Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary. They have to do with the way we interpret the world and… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“A myth is an unverifiable and typically fantastic story that is nonethless felt to be true and that deal with a theme of some… — John Bierhorst Copy Share Image
“Religious or secular, all myths make profound sense to one group of people. Not to everyone. They cannot be rationalized beyond a point. In… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
“We have looked for myths that include us in great novels, music, the latest comic book, or even some stupid advertising campaign. We'll look… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
“[A]nother thing about myths: they gather in and circumscribe their target audience. They make a collection into a collective.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Myths are compost. They begin as religions, the most deeply held of beliefs, or as the stories that accrete to religions as they grow.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“One of the best cures for a reluctant reader, after all, is a tale they cannot stop themselves from reading.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.” — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Real love is fighting like hell to hold on to every moment you have with her. It’s making a life together and making it… — Peter Burke Copy Share Image
There's always faith... Faith that whatever the other is doing, it's for a good reason. — Peter Burke Copy Share Image
Any shlub can pick up a girl at a bar. Want a challenge? Try keeping a beautiful woman happy for ten years running. — Peter Burke Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
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