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Men Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?
- The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.
- Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.
- 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,…
- 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…
- Mythology is the womb of man's initiation to life and death.
- 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…
- It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
- Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
- There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one was a man,…
- All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you don't have to…
- The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind…
- 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…
- I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.
- Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action.…
- 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.
- The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as…
- [Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a…
- The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the…
- Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.
More Men Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — 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
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle