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Experience Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
- 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…
- The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to…
- I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into…
- The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.
- The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.
- What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
- Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which is available to…
- You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning a…
- I don't need faith. I have experience.
- 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…
- Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now…
- Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.
- 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…
- I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All…
- The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
- I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
- It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
- Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred,…
- What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.
- 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 that what we’re…
- 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 feel the rapture…
- God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!
- The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the…
More Experience Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. — Bashar al-Assad
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila