Myths Quotes by Joseph Campbell

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

— Joseph Campbell

We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.

— Joseph Campbell

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

— Joseph Campbell

[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.

— 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

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation…

— Joseph Campbell

“facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter,' as my friend the late Maya Deren once phrased the mystery.”

— Joseph Campbell

“Some things die after they born, others born after they die. myths are public dreams, dreams are privet myths...”

— Joseph Campbell

Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same…

— Joseph Campbell

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as…

— Joseph Campbell

Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other…

— Joseph Campbell

Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from…

— Joseph Campbell

Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story…

— Joseph Campbell

If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can…

— Joseph Campbell

Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to…

— Joseph Campbell

The unfolding through time of all things from one is the simple message, finally, of every one of the creation myths reproduced…

— Joseph Campbell

“But if we are to grasp the full value of the materials, we must note that myths are not exactly comparable to…

— Joseph Campbell

Now all the myths that you have heard and that resonate with you, those are the elements from round about that you…

— Joseph Campbell