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He said myths and mythology wasnt to give meaning to life but to g

He said myths and mythology wasnt to give meaning to life but to give us an experience of life, an experience of vitality in being alive. – Joseph Campbell

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The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels. – Mikhail Strabo

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Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. – Italo Calvino

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in mens minds without their being aware of the fact. – Claude Levi-Strauss

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One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. – Mrs. Humphrey Ward

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