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Thinking Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into…
- When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But…
- When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. What you…
- I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into…
- What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of…
- Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that…
- He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.
- We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our…
- I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.
- Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now…
- You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included…
- If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that…
- 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…
- We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is…
- 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…
- I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
- I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize
- Could God exist if nobody else did? No. That’s why gods are very avid for worshipers. If there is nobody to worship them, there are…
- You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.
- 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…
- It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the…
- People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re…
- Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they…
- A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will…
More Thinking Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I don't think I have a signature. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
- I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I… — J. J. Abrams
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams