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Very Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- 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…
- The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . . In the Middle…
- 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…
- There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples…
- And that Aha! that you get when you see an artwork that really hits you is, 'I am that.' I am the very radiance of…
- People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.
- The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
- 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…
- The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so…
- Following your bliss is not self-indulgent, but vital; your whole physical system knows that this is the way to be alive in this world and…
- As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface…
More Very Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. — Karen Armstrong