The truth of a myth. . . is not in its words but its patterns.
Myth is what we call other people's religion.
Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.
Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.
I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
Never met such a Gorgon. . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.
Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.
There is no one religion, no one truth and no myth lacks meaning
In the beginning was the myth.
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.
In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.
A myth is a fantasy, a preferred lie, a foundational story, a hypnotic trance, an identity game, a virtual reality, one that can be either inspirational or despairing. It is a story in which I cast myself; it is my inner cinema, the motion picture of my inner reality - one that moves all the time. No diagnosis can fix the myth, no cure can settle it, because our inner life is precisely what, in us, will not lie still.
Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.
Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in which you live. But just as in dream, the subject and object, though they seem to be separate, are really the same.
No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth
Myth is the nothing that is all.
writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed.