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Been Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something…
- I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into…
- When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be…
- What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?
- When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been…
- If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will…
- Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you cast out the…
- The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.
- 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…
- No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure,…
- If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that…
- Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience…
- One cannot predict the next mythology any more than one can predict tonight's dream; for a mythology is not an ideology. It is not something…
- It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.
- You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.
- If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then…
- The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.
- If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and…
- How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is…
- The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity…
- The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm…
- The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so…
- Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate…
- The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available…
- The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come…
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour