The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows. — 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
Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There's something inside you that knows when you're in the center, that knows when you're on the beam or off the beam.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Our life has become so economic and practical in its orientation that, as you get older, the claims of the moment upon… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Dragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you see your path laid out in front of you - Step one, Step two, Step three - you only know… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We know that Jesus could not have ascended to heaven because there is no physical heaven anywhere in the universe. Even ascending… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What is unknown is the fulfillment of your own unique life, the likes of which has never existed on earth. And you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which… — 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
We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
And then he says, "The writer must be true to truth." And that's a killer, because the only way you can describe… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps… — 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
