Enormous Quote by Joseph Campbell

Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity…

— Joseph Campbell

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem…

— Joseph Campbell

Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us…

— Joseph Campbell

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

— Rollo May

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the…

— Rollo May

Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for…

— Sam Keen

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

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

— Alan Watts

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has…

— Paul Ricoeur

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.…

— Anne Carson

If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to…

— Joseph Campbell

“A myth is an unverifiable and typically fantastic story that is nonethless felt to be true and that deal with a theme of some…

— John Bierhorst