Century Quote by Caryl Rivers

“Reading myth as crystallizing historical fact was a common approach in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But it is an approach to myth…

— Helen Morales

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Myth is sometimes more important than history.

— Adrian Dunbar

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

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

— Wally Lamb

Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.

— Terry Tempest Williams

A myth is more powerful - and more lasting - than reality.

— Gloria Naylor

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

— Alan Watts

It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into…

— Joseph Campbell

“Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because printing was…

— Karl Marx

I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.

— Timothy Leary

“At critical moments in the life of individuals and of societies, it is not necessarily the facts that are needed as much as a…

— Michael Meade