Ancient Quote by William Robertson Smith

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

— Clyde Tombaugh

To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense,it contains…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Augustus William Hare

“I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what one might…

— Joseph Campbell

It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.

— Norman Davies

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the…

— William Robertson Smith

“For it is the fate of every myth to creep by degrees into the narrow limits of some alleged historical reality, and to be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the great disadvantages of a literary or scriptural tradition like the biblical one is that a deity or context of deities becomes…

— Joseph Campbell

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society,…

— Thomas Bulfinch

Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.

— Devdutt Pattanaik

Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.

— Elizabeth Janeway

“If there is one fable, which would seem entitled to escape the analysis, which we have undertaken of religious poems and sacred legends, by…

— Anonymous