Religion Quotes by Joseph Campbell

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

— Joseph Campbell

I don't need faith. I have experience.

— Joseph Campbell

“Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.”

— Joseph Campbell

“The spirit is the bouquet of nature.”

— Joseph Campbell

All religions are true but none are literal.

— Joseph Campbell

“The image of God is your final obstruction to a religious experience.”

— Joseph Campbell

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

— Joseph Campbell

I don't have faith, I have experience.

— Joseph Campbell

If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion... The hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must…

— Joseph Campbell

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Joseph Campbell

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

— Joseph Campbell

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

— Joseph Campbell

Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Joseph Campbell

“One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit.' 'We're interested in the…

— Joseph Campbell

There have been systems of religion where the mother is the prime parent, the source, and she's really a more immediate parent…

— 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 actual point in question, throughout the centuries of Christian persecution, has never been faith in God, but faith in the Bible…

— Joseph Campbell

With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we…

— 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

The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those…

— 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

We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the…

— 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

If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program,…

— Joseph Campbell

“One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated,…

— 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

So I think the Guru can be a delusion. But everything can be deluding. The thing central about the Guru in the…

— Joseph Campbell

The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we…

— Joseph Campbell

We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one…

— Joseph Campbell

“It is not easy for students to realize that to ask, as they often do, whether God exists and is merciful, just,…

— Joseph Campbell

“The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines…

— Joseph Campbell

“The return and reintegration with society, which is indispensable to the continuous circulation of spiritual energy into the world, and which, from…

— Joseph Campbell

“Now, eternity is beyond all categories of thought. This is an important point in all of the great Oriental religions. We want…

— Joseph Campbell

“The idea of the supernatural as being something over and above the natural is a killing idea. In the Middle Ages this…

— Joseph Campbell

“One of the most interesting histories of what comes of rejecting science we may see in Islam, which in the beginning received,…

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Joseph Campbell

Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . .…

— Joseph Campbell

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual…

— Joseph Campbell