Ability Quote by Denis Johnston

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

— Edith Hamilton

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds,…

— Joseph Campbell

Myths are lies that tell the truth.

— Phil Cousineau

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

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

— Michael Shermer

Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.

— Albert Camus

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

— Irwin Edman

Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world and our…

— Stephen H. Furrer

It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as powers on…

— Rudolf Bultmann

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 have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the…

— Anonymous