Quotes by Joseph Campbell

About Joseph Campbell:

Joseph John Campbell is often summarized by his phrase: "Follow your bliss."
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Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

Joseph Campbell

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

Joseph Campbell

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

Joseph Campbell

Awe is what moves us forward.

Joseph Campbell

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship. You become mature when you become the authority of your own life. Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change...

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Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.

Joseph Campbell

Our actual ultimate root is in our humanity, not in our personal genealogy.

Joseph Campbell

One of the most interesting histories of what comes of rejecting science we may see in Islam, which in the beginning received, accepted, and even developed the classical legacy. For some five or six rich centuries there is an impressive Islamic recor...

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It is a basic idea of practically every war mythology that the enemy is a monster and that in killing him one is protecting the only truly valuable order of human life on earth, which is that, of course, of one's own people.

Joseph Campbell

In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the recognition of the divinity. And when you say 'Aha' to an art object, that is a recognition of divinity. And what divinity is it? It is your divinity...

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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Joseph Campbell

Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.

Joseph Campbell

Lo que el creativo saca a la luz es algo que estaba esperando ser extraído en todos.

Joseph Campbell

Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so ...

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A priest is a functionary of a social sort. The society worships certain deities in a certain way, and the priest becomes ordained as a functionary to carry out that ritual. The deity to whom he is devoted is a deity that was there before he came alo...

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People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will ha...

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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

Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of ...

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[Marriage] is the reunion of the separated duad. Originally you were one. You are now two in the world, but the recognition of the spiritual identity is what marriage is.

Joseph Campbell

Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.

Joseph Campbell

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

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Author Bio

  • NameJoseph Campbell
  • DescriptionAmerican mythologist, writer and lecturer
  • AliasesJoseph John Campbell
  • BornMarch 26, 1904
  • DiedOctober 31, 1987
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAnthropologist; Mythologist; Writer; Philosopher; Teacher