All Joseph Campbell Quotes
- I don't need faith. I have experience. Experience
- The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior… Assigned
- The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to… Advantage
- The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are… Adventure
- The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. Inspirational
- The one radiance shines through all things. All
- Art is the clothing of a revelation Art
- As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face Aged
- The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations. Able
- The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which… Answer
- Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have… Affair
- Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life. Clue
- The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . . In the Middle… Age
- We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our… Desire
- The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has… Accepted
- At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life.… All
- The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to… Behave
- You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that's waiting to… Every Minute
- Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free. Any
- Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society,… Inspirational
- Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to crush humanity or… Asks
- Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of… Aim
- Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That… Father
- We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long… Act
- And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear… Bear