Addresses Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code.…

— Kenny Smith

Mythology is the womb of man's initiation to life and death.

— Joseph Campbell

“The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men's eyes.”

— Jack Donovan

“Some things die after they born, others born after they die. myths are public dreams, dreams are privet myths...”

— Joseph Campbell

“The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man's interpretation…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Man is not capable of thought in any high degree, and even the most spiritual and highly cultivated of men habitually sees the world…

— Hermann Hesse

Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see…

— Rollo May

“Myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless pattern, the pious formula, into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out…

— Thomas Mann Mythology by Christopher Dell

“People didn't realize it, but they needed myths to survive, just as much now as when their forebears were alive. Perhaps more. Mythology embodied…

— Charles de Lint

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

— Joseph Campbell

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.

— Carl Sagan

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman,…

— Victor Hugo