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Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a

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Joseph Campbell
American - Author
March 26, 1904 - October 31, 1987

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

Thomas Jefferson

Today's religions are nothing but the long-lived mythologies!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.

Harold Ramis

Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.

Joseph Campbell

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

Wallace Stevens

If we will admit time into our thoughts at all, the mythologies, those vestiges of ancient poems, wrecks of poems, so to speak, the world's inheritance,... these are the materials and hints for a history of the rise and progress of the race; how, from the condition of ants, it arrived at the condition of men, and arts were gradually invented. Let a thousand surmises shed some light on this story.

Henry David Thoreau

It is the crucifixion that distinguishes the new message from the mythologies of all other peoples.

Martin Hengel

Mythologies are violent things, and to be true to them, you have to go to primal territory.

Panos Cosmatos

All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

Hermann Hesse

I loved all the world's mythologies.

Lloyd Alexander

The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two.

Freya Stark

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.

Eric Kripke

Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

James Surowiecki

What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other and where 'the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere'? The mythologies of the occult seem like baroque music: there is an overall similar quality of sound and movement, but, upon examination, each piece of music is unique; Vivaldi and Scarlatti are similar and different.

William Irwin Thompson

"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively simple question has stumped the elders of the church and embarrassed the finest theologians, precipitating some of the thorniest theological debates over the centuries. All the great religions have elaborate mythologies surrounding the divine act of Creation, but none of them adequately confronts the logical paradoxes inherent in the question that even children ask.

Michio Kaku

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist

Anish Kapoor

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