Misunderstood Quote by Joseph Campbell Download Open image “Religon is misunderstood mythology” — Joseph Campbell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Misunderstood Mythology
Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology. — Richard King Copy Share Image
Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way. — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of history, mythology,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Tell me that I misunderstood a joke, but don't tell me that my choice of cravat is wrong. — David Niven Copy Share Image
Teenagers: The most misunderstood people on earth. Treated like children and expected to act like adults. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was so unsuccessful for so long. I was used to the word no. I was used to you're not good enough or not… — Tamar Braxton Copy Share Image
I love Crowley for being an audacious man at certain point in time. I think he's greatly misunderstood. He was a good guy, but… — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience… — Tim Field Copy Share Image
As evangelical Christians we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel is more… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Mental illness People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on your skin like scars forming a map of all the ways… — Emm Roy Copy Share Image
In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood. — Mae West Copy Share Image
To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image