Quotes about Myth and Mythology

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Myth is other people's religion. - Joseph Campbell quote.
Myth is other people's religion.
Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth. - Richard Dawkins quote.
Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

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Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them. - Edith Hamilton quote.
Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
When myth meets myth, the collision is very real. - Stanisław Jerzy Lec quote.
When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. - Bertrand Russell quote.
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Religion is applied mythology. - Northrop Frye quote.
Religion is applied mythology.
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Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted. - Henry David Thoreau quote.
Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.
Myths pick up the pieces where philosophy throws up its hands. The great myths may help survivors to think through this unthinkable catastrophe, to make sense by analogy.