Abstract Quote by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

— W. H. Auden

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

— Thomas Bulfinch

“One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated, from the…

— Joseph Campbell

A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths,…

— Carl Jung

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

— Janet Morris

“It is possible to communicate beautifully or boringly, in every language on Earth. But people don't like to believe this. They make self-aggrandizing myths…

— Robert Lane Greene

Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end.

— Amish Tripathi

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

“Classical mythology has been so influential upon Western culture that everyone who is alive to the art,culture,politics, and languages of today encounters it.”

— Helen Morales

“Every poet knows that the gift of the gods is not fire but language. “Man dwells poetically on this earth,” Hölderin wrote. Language is…

— Rob Riemen