Break Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to speak, which…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all.

— Janet Morris

Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of…

— Michael Shermer

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

— Thomas Bulfinch

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the…

— Joseph Campbell

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

— W. H. Auden

“Mythology and religion are relevant and remarkable, as they each represent imaginative truths – projections of human beings innermost desires – intermixed with fragments…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“All our language is composed of brief little dreams; and the wonderful thing is that we sometimes make of them strangely accurate and marvelously…

— Paul Valéry

We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us through the…

— Julie Taymor

Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.

— Karen Russell