Men Quotes by Joseph Campbell

There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.

— Joseph Campbell

Mythology is the womb of man's initiation to life and death.

— Joseph Campbell

Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.

— Joseph Campbell

Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.

— Joseph Campbell

It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

— Joseph Campbell

What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?

— Joseph Campbell

Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.

— Joseph Campbell

Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.

— Joseph Campbell

Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the…

— Joseph Campbell

The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of…

— Joseph Campbell

The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men…

— Joseph Campbell

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

— Joseph Campbell

The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and…

— Joseph Campbell

There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one…

— Joseph Campbell

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the…

— Joseph Campbell

Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the…

— Joseph Campbell

But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past…

— Joseph Campbell

Men sometimes confess they love war because it puts them in touch with the experience of being alive. In going to the…

— Joseph Campbell

The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.'…

— Joseph Campbell

All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you…

— Joseph Campbell

I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience…

— Joseph Campbell

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult…

— Joseph Campbell

It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos…

— Joseph Campbell

In the older view the goddess Universe was alive, herself organically the Earth, the horizon, and the heavens. Now she is dead,…

— Joseph Campbell

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult…

— Joseph Campbell

The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as…

— Joseph Campbell

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

— Joseph Campbell

The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

— Joseph Campbell

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good…

— Joseph Campbell

Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as…

— Joseph Campbell

Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern…

— Joseph Campbell