Defined Quote by Joseph Campbell

Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of…

— Joseph Campbell

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

— Joseph Campbell

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

— Augustus William Hare

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true…

— Ambrose Bierce

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

— Richard King

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

— Joseph Campbell

Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.

— Gerald Hausman

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.

— Northrop Frye

Religon is misunderstood mythology

— Joseph Campbell

Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has come to…

— Laura Riding

“Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call "history." Mythical stories, when you trace them…

— Gerald Hausman