Matter Quote by Reza Aslan

“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 compost. They begin as religions, the most deeply held of beliefs, or as the stories that accrete to religions as they grow.”

— Neil Gaiman

“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

I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what…

— John Green

“(what myths of any religion are rational?).”

— John H. Martin

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.

— Gerald Hausman

Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.

— Zsuzsanna Budapest

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

— Michael Shermer

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

— Augustus William Hare

“And after all, our mythology may be much nearer to literal truth than we suppose.”

— c.s. lewis