« All Wonder Quotes · Joseph Campbell's Page
Wonder Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which is available to…
- Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.
- A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory…
- All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all…
- The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm…
More Wonder Quotes
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- '1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names. — Margaret Atwood
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. — Teresa of Avila
- I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that… — Teresa of Avila
- I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His… — Teresa of Avila
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman
- The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. — Richard Bach
- The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No… — Amitabh Bachchan
- A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. — Walter Bagehot