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Things Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being…
- The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on…
- The one radiance shines through all things.
- We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long…
- People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.
- What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act -…
- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created…
- The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on…
- What is the cause, though, of the growth of an acorn? The oak that is to come! What is to happen in the future is…
- Dragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends to guard things,…
- A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of…
- We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with…
- 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…
- Have you ever looked inside one of those things [computers]? It's a whole hierarchy of angels- all on slats. And those little tubes-those are miracles.
- Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle