"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...
Myth is what we call other people's religion.
~ Joseph Campbell ~
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Myth is what we call other people's religion.
More Joseph Campbell quotes
"Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
"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....
"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...
"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...
"All religions are true but none are literal.
"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...
"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. ...
"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...
"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...