Joseph Campbell Mythology Quotations

When you see the Earth from space, you don't see any divisions of nation-states there. This may be the symbol of the new mythology to come; this is the country we will celebrate, and these are the people we are one with.

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

Religon is misunderstood mythology

Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.

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

Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or place. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd.