Community Quote by Rollo May

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

— FastReads

“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

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

— Joseph Campbell

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

— Rollo May

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

The claim that myth is always a narrative spin-off of ritual; the claim that myth is the projection of human anxieties onto a cosmological…

— Robert Bringhurst

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the…

— Rollo May

I think of a myth as a story that helps you explain all the different pieces of your life. In that broad sense, there…

— Lewis Hyde

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

— Alan Watts

“Myths remind us of the symbolic presence within all the lost-and-found adventures that alone can give life meaning. Losing touch with the world of…

— Michael Meade

I think people create MYTH so that they can hide originality of the society.

— Punkinhead Abhishek

Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for…

— Sam Keen