"Because of the way that myth takes it for granted that miracles are always happening, the waking life of a mythically inspired people — the ancient Greeks, for instance — more closely resembles a dream than it does the waking world of a scientifically disenchanted thinker."
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Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)
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