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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

— George Orwell

“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal retelling of…

— Jonah Sachs

To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how…

— Bruno Heller

all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.

— Jose Saramago

It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of…

— Marya Hornbacher

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

— Paul Ricoeur

Both mythology and history interest me.

— Mohit Raina

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

— Joseph Campbell

There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.

— Jean Houston

The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an…

— David Eddings