“Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.”

“Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.”

“The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity and cogency of their supporting canons of myth; for not authority but aspiration is the motivator, builder, and transformer of civilization.”

“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”

“Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions sown are directly valid for all mankind”

“Myth is what we call other people's religion.”

“We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.”