All Joseph Campbell Quotes
- The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. Black
- Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when… Answer
- What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the… Function
- The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Advice
- Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. History
- The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue,… Afternoon
- What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part… Curious
- How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick. Dictator
- The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply. Demon
- Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. Alive
- He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable. Absolutely
- Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required. All
- For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary. Capable
- Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology.… Defined
- [T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop… All
- Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our… Beyond
- There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts.… Atheism
- The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as… Duality
- It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60). God
- The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead,… Bring
- When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being,… Born
- Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92) Affair
- How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need… Come Gradually
- With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that… Divided
- When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost.… Bible