Archetype Quote by Margot Adler

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

— Joseph Campbell

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

“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

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

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

Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.

— Gerald Hausman

Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable,…

— Sallust

“Myths have always been archetypal realities, that through history or legend, remind the human being of his origin, his destiny, and the meaning of…

— Javier Cazañ

Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with…

— Charles de Lint

“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

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods.…

— Anne Carson

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