Thinking Quotes by Joseph Campbell

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Joseph Campbell

You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.

— Joseph Campbell

What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss

— Joseph Campbell

The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.

— Joseph Campbell

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

— Joseph Campbell

I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

— Joseph Campbell

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

— Joseph Campbell

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking,…

— Joseph Campbell

A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of…

— Joseph Campbell

We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the…

— Joseph Campbell

We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of…

— 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

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

— Joseph Campbell

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as…

— 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

What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to…

— 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

Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time…

— Joseph Campbell

Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize…

— 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

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

— Joseph Campbell

I think that Jean Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of inward-turned contemplation-a n understanding…

— 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

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

— Joseph Campbell

I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has…

— Joseph Campbell

Just think, Vishnu sleeps in the cosmic ocean, and the lotus of the universe grows from his navel. On the lotus sits…

— Joseph Campbell

I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These…

— Joseph Campbell

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them.…

— 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

The importance of the End of time is as ... a psychological event ... When you have seen the radiance of eternity…

— Joseph Campbell

You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that…

— Joseph Campbell

The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the…

— Joseph Campbell

If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else,…

— Joseph Campbell

You may have success in life, but then just think of it - what kind of life was it? What good was…

— Joseph Campbell

Eternity is not a long time; rather, it is another dimension. It is that dimension to which time-thinking shuts us. And so…

— Joseph Campbell

Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of…

— Joseph Campbell