Hallucinations Quote by William S. Burroughs

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

— Alan Watts

“The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

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

— Paul Ricoeur

There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call the terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems…

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Joseph Campbell

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are…

— Rollo May

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

Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. The myth…

— Rollo May

Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They…

— Joseph Campbell

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the…

— Joseph Campbell

Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.

— Maya Deren