"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...












All religions are true but none are literal.
More Joseph Campbell quotes
"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...
"Myth is what we call other people's religion.
"Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.
"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...
"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...
"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...
"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...
"With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth a...
"Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of myth...