People Quotes by Joseph Campbell

When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out.

— Joseph Campbell

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

— Joseph Campbell

Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.

— Joseph Campbell

People forget facts, but they remember stories.

— Joseph Campbell

People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.

— Joseph Campbell

The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.

— Joseph Campbell

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being…

— Joseph Campbell

When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the…

— Joseph Campbell

Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular…

— Joseph Campbell

The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for…

— Joseph Campbell

Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means…

— Joseph Campbell

You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to…

— Joseph Campbell

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

— Joseph Campbell

For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.

— Joseph Campbell

The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary…

— 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

There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they…

— Joseph Campbell

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought…

— Joseph Campbell

The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you…

— Joseph Campbell

What is unknown is the fulfillment of your own unique life, the likes of which has never existed on earth. And you…

— Joseph Campbell

People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think…

— Joseph Campbell

The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules,…

— Joseph Campbell

When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get…

— Joseph Campbell

In the Orient the ultimate divine mystery is sought beyond all human categories of thought and feeling, beyond names and forms, and…

— Joseph Campbell

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half…

— Joseph Campbell

Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which…

— Joseph Campbell

Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing…

— Joseph Campbell

Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you…

— Joseph Campbell

Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.

— Joseph Campbell

Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.

— 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

It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you... Follow your bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to…

— Joseph Campbell

The world is full of people that have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only their neighbors to learn what they…

— Joseph Campbell

Could God exist if nobody else did? No. That’s why gods are very avid for worshipers. If there is nobody to worship…

— Joseph Campbell

Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited…

— Joseph Campbell

When you see the earth from the moon, you don't see any divisions there of nations or states. This might be the…

— Joseph Campbell

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life.…

— Joseph Campbell

Dragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends…

— Joseph Campbell

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end…

— Joseph Campbell