--- title: "4 Fixed Quotes By Joseph Campbell" description: "4 Fixed quotes by Joseph Campbell. Plus more from Joseph Campbell and more Fixed sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08d/joseph-campbell-300_advance_if-you-are-to-advance-all-fixed-ideas-mu_324301.png" --- > [If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/if-you-are-to-advance-all-fixed-ideas-must-go/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08d/joseph-campbell-300_advance_if-you-are-to-advance-all-fixed-ideas-mu_324301.png) > [You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/you-can-t-have-creativity-unless-you-leave-behind-the-bounded-the/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3b/joseph-campbell-300_behinds_you-can-t-have-creativity-unless-you-lea_1387691.png) > [The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/the-myths-and-folk-tales-of-the-whole-world-make-clear-that-the/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/471/joseph-campbell-300_advantage_the-myths-and-folk-tales-of-the-whole-wo_2540556.jpg) > [If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/if-you-go-to-a-master-to-study-and-learn-the-techniques-you/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70a/joseph-campbell-300_art_if-you-go-to-a-master-to-study-and-learn_2797841.jpg) ## Other authors on Fixed ## More by Joseph Campbell > [If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/if-a-person-does-not-listen-to-the-demands-of-their-own-spiritual-and/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/the-last-act-in-the-biography-of-the-hero-is-that-of-the-death-or/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/the-privilege-of-a-lifetime-is-being-who-you-are/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/the-eternal-principle-which-never-was-born-never-will-die-it-is-in/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/how-do-you-find-the-divine-power-in-yourself-the-word-enthusiasm/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/what-we-re-learning-in-our-schools-is-not-the-wisdom-of-life-we-re/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [ The fall \[of your soul\] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/the-fall-of-your-soul-from-perfection-into-duality-was-naturally/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/so-that-s-what-destiny-is-simply-the-fulfillment-of-the-potentialites/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/your-ego-is-your-embodiment-and-your-self-is-your-potentiality-and/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/when-you-follow-your-bliss-a-kind-of-track-opens-up-that-s-always/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [The best we can do is lean towards the light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/the-best-we-can-do-is-lean-towards-the-light/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/i-think-of-mythology-as-the-homeland-of-the-muses-the-inspirers-of/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [When you are falling --- Dive!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/when-you-are-falling-dive/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/we-re-all-seeking-the-rapture-of-being-alive/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/both-the-artist-and-the-lover-know-that-perfection-is-not-loveable-it/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fixed/joseph-campbell/#itemlist", "name": "4 Fixed Quotes By Joseph Campbell", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Joseph Campbell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/if-you-are-to-advance-all-fixed-ideas-must-go/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08d/joseph-campbell-300_advance_if-you-are-to-advance-all-fixed-ideas-mu_324301.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08d/joseph-campbell-300_advance_if-you-are-to-advance-all-fixed-ideas-mu_324301.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08d/joseph-campbell-300_advance_if-you-are-to-advance-all-fixed-ideas-mu_324301.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.” — Joseph Campbell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Joseph Campbell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/you-can-t-have-creativity-unless-you-leave-behind-the-bounded-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3b/joseph-campbell-300_behinds_you-can-t-have-creativity-unless-you-lea_1387691.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3b/joseph-campbell-300_behinds_you-can-t-have-creativity-unless-you-lea_1387691.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3b/joseph-campbell-300_behinds_you-can-t-have-creativity-unless-you-lea_1387691.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules” — Joseph Campbell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest. 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