Agency Quote by Stuart Kauffman

“There is no one story that will replace the American dream, but stories like this one—and there are thousands—can inform the myth or myths…

— Carolyn Baker

“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

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

“The great mythologist Joseph Campbell stated 'Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestations'.…

— Sophie Cornish

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

— Alexander McCall Smith

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

“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

We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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 seems to us that there are four great collective sociological assumptions in the modern world. By this we mean not only the Western…

— Jacques Ellul

Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.

— Terry Tempest Williams

There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and…

— Terri Windling