Appearance Quote by 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

“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

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

Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They…

— Joseph Campbell

“Mythology and religion are relevant and remarkable, as they each represent imaginative truths – projections of human beings innermost desires – intermixed with fragments…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.

— Anonymous

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

“But since the downfall of the mythological hypothesis an interpretation of the dream has been wanting. The conditions of its origin; its relationship to…

— Sigmund Freud

Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.

— Gerald Hausman

We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have…

— Ben Okri

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

“Anytime one tries to take fragments of one's personal mythology and make them understandable to the whole world, one reaches back to the past.…

— Assotto Saint