Quotes by Joseph Campbell

About Joseph Campbell:

Joseph John Campbell is often summarized by his phrase: "Follow your bliss."
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Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

Joseph Campbell

You have to learn to recognize your own depths.

Joseph Campbell

[T]here is nothing to say about life. It has no meaning. You make meaning. If you want a meaning in your life, find a meaning and bring it into your life, but life won't give you a meaning. Meaning is a concept. It is a notion of an end toward which ...

Joseph Campbell

[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 div...

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I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what one might call rather the psychological, inward import, of the world of nature round about us, as understood today. There's no r...

Joseph Campbell

in America we have people from all kinds of backgrounds, all in a cluster, together, and consequently law has become very important in this country. Lawyers and law are what hold us together. There is no ethos.

Joseph Campbell

You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what you mean. You enjoy it.

Joseph Campbell

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. I have bought this wonderful machine — a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god,...

Joseph Campbell

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

Joseph Campbell

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 part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.

Joseph Campbell

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

Joseph Campbell

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.

Joseph Campbell

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Joseph Campbell

You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.” –

Joseph Campbell

If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where y...

Joseph Campbell

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

Joseph Campbell

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

Joseph Campbell

Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

Joseph Campbell

A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.

Joseph Campbell

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

Joseph Campbell

A myth is something that has never happened, but is happening all the time.

Joseph Campbell

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