The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The function of ritual... is to give form to the human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience;… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The importance of the End of time is as ... a psychological event ... When you have seen the radiance of eternity… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The real important function of the church is to present the symbol, to perform the rite, to let you behold this divine… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
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… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
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… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
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… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
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… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
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