Common sense Quote by William Robertson Smith

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

— George Orwell

The claim that myth is always a narrative spin-off of ritual; the claim that myth is the projection of human anxieties onto a cosmological…

— Robert Bringhurst

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

— Rollo May

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

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

— Michael Shermer

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

— David Mitchell

Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And unless you…

— Karen Armstrong

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

— Joseph Campbell

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

— Joseph Campbell

“A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension... A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a…

— Brian Godawa

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