Myth Quotes

"Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us." "Overnight success is almost a myth" "The power of humans depends on the power of our stories" "Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, sapiens have thus been living in a dual reality. On the one hand, the objective reality of rivers, trees, and lions; and on the other hand, the imagined reality of gods, nations, and corporations." "Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths " "A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds" "Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot." "A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world." "The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth" "A little bit of the legend works because it's just poetry" "Some stories are true that never happened." "Every fairy tale had a bloody lining."