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Human Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the…
- 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…
- Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation....
- Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
- We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however, another order of…
- The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into…
- Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when…
- There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are…
- It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.
- The function of ritual... is to give form to the human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.
- Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now. It is a dimension of the human spirit -- which is eternal. Find…
- The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.
- Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.
- And then he says, "The writer must be true to truth." And that's a killer, because the only way you can describe a human being…
- Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come…
- But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong