Body Quote by Sallust

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

— Alan Watts

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

— Ansel Adams

“This is why myth is experienced as innocent speech: not because its intentions are hidden—if they were hidden, they could not be efficacious—but because…

— Roland Barthes

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

— Paul Ricoeur

Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code.…

— Kenny Smith

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

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

— Joseph Campbell

There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

— Philipp Meyer

There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.…

— Bertrand Russell

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

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

Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.

— Anne Waldman