Humanity Quote by Joseph Campbell

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

“Classical mythology has been so influential upon Western culture that everyone who is alive to the art,culture,politics, and languages of today encounters it.”

— Helen Morales

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

— Alan Watts

“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

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

— Paul Ricoeur

The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in…

— 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

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

It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as powers on…

— Rudolf Bultmann

“[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the word myth…

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Rollo May

“Myth is the isthmus which connects the peninsular world of thought with that vast continent we really belong to. It is not, like truth,…

— C.S. Lewis