Joseph Campbell Quotes - Page 12

Quotes about:

• There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call a terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come.

  Joseph Campbell

  Relationship, Broken, Imagination

  "Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor".

  22 Copy quote

• To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.

  Joseph Campbell

  Real, Deep Life, Analysis

  9 Copy quote

• Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.

  Joseph Campbell

  Play, Guy, Trying

  16 Copy quote

• The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Firsts, Given

  8 Copy quote

• Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Journey, Snakes

  7 Copy quote

• Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problem and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Peculiar, Way

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 1), 1949.

  9 Copy quote

• 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 energy that is talking to me through this painting.

  Joseph Campbell

  Talking, Energy, Radiance

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.38, New World Library

  13 Copy quote

• The dreamer and his dream are the same...the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Moving, Dreamer

  6 Copy quote

• The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world."

  Joseph Campbell

  Artist, World, Function

  5 Copy quote

• What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?

  Joseph Campbell

  Light, Bulbs, Vehicle

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.88, Anchor

  15 Copy quote

• [Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms...

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Men, Joy

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 2), 1949.

  18 Copy quote

• Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

  Joseph Campbell

  Narrative, Metaphor, Myth

  Joseph Campbell (2002). “The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion”, p.28, New World Library

  9 Copy quote

• The perfect human being is uninteresting.

  Joseph Campbell

  Perfect, Humans, Human Beings

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.3, Anchor

  8 Copy quote

• People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.

  Joseph Campbell

  Unfortunate Things, People, Whole

  21 Copy quote

• Money is congealed energy and releasing it releases life possibilities ... Money experienced as life energy is indeed a meditation, and letting it flow out instead of hoarding it is a mode of participation in the life of others.

  Joseph Campbell

  Meditation, Energy, Hoarding

  10 Copy quote

• Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Nice, Book

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.122, Anchor

  20 Copy quote

• A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.

  Joseph Campbell

  Real, Being Real, Being True

  9 Copy quote

• 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 a special authority, or a special revelation telling you that this is the way things should be.

  Joseph Campbell

  Men, Mind, Democracy

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.31, Anchor

  18 Copy quote

• The goal is to live with God like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.

  Joseph Campbell

  Goal, Energy, Riding

  18 Copy quote

• There is no security in following the call to adventure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Following, Security

  9 Copy quote

• So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.

  Joseph Campbell

  Destiny, Energy, Fulfillment

  12 Copy quote

• And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero's Journey.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Dark, Journey

  16 Copy quote

• What is unknown is the fulfillment of your own unique life, the likes of which has never existed on earth. And you are the only one who can do it. People can give you clues how to fall and when to stand, and when you are falling and when you are standing, this only you can know. And in the way of your own talents is the only way to do it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fall, Unique, People

  6 Copy quote

• Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.

  Joseph Campbell

  Stress, Struggle, Men

  10 Copy quote

• Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.

  Joseph Campbell

  Today, Economics, Governing

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.167, New World Library

  11 Copy quote

Page 12 of 23

First

← Prev

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin