Joseph Campbell Quotes

551 quotes · Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer

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Joseph Campbell Quotes

All Philosophical Spiritual Creative Courageous Adventurous 551 quotes · page 26 of 46

Joseph Campbell

Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer

Philosophical

“The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul.”

Soul Light Hero

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Joseph Campbell

Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer

Courageous

“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to life. We are not there until we can say 'yea' to it all.”

Pain Opportunity Challenges

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Courageous

“When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.”

Inspirational Strength

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Courageous

“You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done.”

Fall Done

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Philosophical

“Dragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends to guard things, and he usually has these guarded in a cave... Now dragons don't know what to do either with beautiful girls or gold, but they just hang on. There are people like this. We call them creeps.”

Beautiful Girl Dragons

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Philosophical

“This is an important point about symbols: they do not refer to historical events; they refer through historical events to spiritual or psychological principles and powers that are of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and that are everywhere.”

Spiritual Yesterday Historical

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Spiritual

“Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.”

Reality Unity

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Philosophical

“Awe is what moves us forward.”

Moving Awe

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Spiritual

“Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.”

Spiritual Eternity Follow Your Bliss

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Grateful

“You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how much my work has meant to them--well, I can't tell you how happy that makes me. That means that this great stuff of myth, which I have been so privileged to work with, will be kept alive for a whole new generation. That's the function of the artists, you know, to reinterpret the old stories and make them come alive again, in poetry, painting, and now in movies.”

Writing Mean Book

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Creative

“The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work handled mythological themes in a marvelous way: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.”

Men Art Two

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Philosophical

“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 the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.”

Mind Lying Buddhist

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