Myth quotes sayings
1. "Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation." - Joseph Campbell
2. "Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths." - Joseph Campbell
3. "Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told." - Joseph Campbell
4. "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." - H.P. Lovecraft
5. "Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is." - Joseph Campbell
6. "Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation." - Joseph Campbell
7. "Myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless pattern, the religious formula to which life shapes itself... It is the human wish to triumph over the forces of nature, to triumph over age, to triumph over death." - Joseph Campbell
8. "Mythology is not a lie, for the story of a battle between a dragon and a hero is a metaphor for the battle between good and evil in our own hearts." - R.C. Sproul
9. "Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true." - Jane Harrison
10. "Myth is the revelation of a divine life in man." - Joseph Campbell
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