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Facts Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them…
- 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.…
- The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact
- We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is…
- The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided from the heavens,…
- Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what…
- Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not…
- Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they…
- 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.…
- ..enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as…
- Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end… The exclusivism…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a… — Rowan Atkinson
- I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I… — David Attenborough
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden