Why should it be that whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.

Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) American writer, professor of literature
The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology (1987)

 
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