Mind Theory Quotes

“In an important sense, all culture is one: human beings today owe something to every culture that has gone before us.”
― Robert N. Bellah, Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

“The myths are an effort to understand the nature of reality. Their narrators must use the analogies that lie at hand, analogies from their own social experience, with all its inner tensions and inconsistencies.”
― Robert N. Bellah, Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age