Function Quote by Joseph Campbell

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are…

— Rollo May

It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word…

— James Hillman

It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all…

— Aristotle

I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These energies are…

— Joseph Campbell

Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.

— Joseph Campbell

The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when allowed to…

— Margot Adler

Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. The myth…

— Rollo May

Divine symbols which have been given to mankind from time to time speak to that forum of truth which is within our hearts, and…

— Max Heindel

In religion, symbols have always played a iconographic and ritualistic role. Different symbols might represent different theological ideas.

— Trevor Paglen

If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must…

— Mark Rothko

We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such…

— John Frederick Nims

The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the possibilities of…

— Mark Rothko