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Sense Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of 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…
- What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act -…
- When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty. This is something that is coming up in our own consciousness now...recognizi ng…
- We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one of flesh, the…
- I think that Jean Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of inward-turned contemplation-a n understanding that leaves the…
- Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.
- You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe…
- Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology.…
- Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the…
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- 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 live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden