Quotes from Joseph Campbell
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.
- Joseph Campbell
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
- Joseph Campbell
And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear whose skull had been improperly enshrined?
- Joseph Campbell
I don't need faith. I have experience.
- Joseph Campbell
You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.
- Joseph Campbell
Myth is what we call other people's religion.
- Joseph Campbell
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
- Joseph Campbell
You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
- Joseph Campbell
I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize
- Joseph Campbell
The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.
- Joseph Campbell
When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
- Joseph Campbell