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Myth Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
- When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost…
- There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way,…
- Myth is the public dream, and dream is the private myth.
- The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent…
- Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation....
- The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to…
- Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
- The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of…
- The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact
- This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and…
- Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the…
- 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.…
- I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and…
- Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts,…
- A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a…
- Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in…
- 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…
- 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…
- Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.
- The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity…
- Myth is what we call other people's religion.
- Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the…
- Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
- Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.
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- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every… — Brooks Atkinson
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth. — Margaret Atwood
- Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. — Ansel Adams
- The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people… — Warren G. Bennis
- A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives… — Annie Besant
- 'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year… — Annie Besant
- Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting… — Lionel Blue
- If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you. — Ray Bradbury
- I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't;… — Jo Brand
- Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow… — William J. Brennan
- You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right… — Jeff Bridges