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

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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

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The look that one directs at things, both outward and inward, as an artist, is not the same as that with which one would regard the same as a man, but...more

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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us....more

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Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them a...more

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Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize the positive values in wh...more

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Myth is what we call other people's religion.

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All religions are true but none are literal.

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Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.

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One of the most interesting histories of what comes of rejecting science we may see in Islam, which in the beginning received, accepted, and even deve...more

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One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated, from the North Amer...more

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Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the psyche. ...more

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The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possi...more

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There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they a...more

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Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are...more