“Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“In the 1940s a white American man wrote about the sacred myths of other cultures. He decided he knew what they meant… — Drew Jacob Copy Share Image
“The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The ideal hero of the age emerges as a titanic individual who, after rejecting and overthrowing a corrupt social order, struggles on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Full circle from the tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb we come, an ambiguous, enigmatical incursion into a… — Joseph Campbell Hero with a 1000 Faces Copy Share Image
“And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“But if we are to grasp the full value of the materials, we must note that myths are not exactly comparable to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The Holy Fool is always considered a dummy by the smart, hip people who really know the score. There’s a mysterious blight… — Ann Medlock Copy Share Image
“I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“To become—in Jung’s terms—individuated, to live as a released individual, one has to know how and when to put on and to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Stories are masks of God. That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade,… — Melanie Tem Copy Share Image
