Storytelling Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“[A]nother thing about myths: they gather in and circumscribe their target audience. They make a collection into a collective.”

— Margaret Atwood

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

— FastReads

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended.”

— Peter Burke

“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

“Myths are often entertaining, but they're never very helpful.”

— Lemony Snicket

“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

“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

“the society that cherishes and keeps its myths alive will be nourished from the soundest, richest strata of the human spirit.”

— Joseph Campbell

“...when the daily reality presents itself as uncomprehendable, we fashion our own myths and then hold those phony truths to be inalienable.”

— Marianne Wiggins

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

— Alexander McCall Smith