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Mind Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these…
- If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you.…
- You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not…
- 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…
- Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.
- When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
- Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you…
- 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…
- Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level,…
- 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 way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy…
- 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…
- Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)
More Mind Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle