Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbellwas an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience. His philosophy is often summarized by his phrase: "Follow your bliss."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth26 March 1904
CountryUnited States of America
artist function
Making the inner meet the outer is the function of the artist.
inspirational pride bows
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
artist perfection faults
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
giving way depth
The function of ritual... is to give form to the human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.
inspirational god thinking
It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).
inspirational real people
Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)
hero journey
Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.
inspirational ego messengers
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.
inspirational light oedipus
The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.
sacrifice unity
When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
anyone doors follow open
When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
contract strike workers
We do not think the Boeing IAM workers will strike when their contract expires on Sept. 2.
goes several
When Boeing goes down, it goes down for several years,
country divisions earth mythology people symbol
When you see the Earth from space, you don't see any divisions of nation-states there. This may be the symbol of the new mythology to come; this is the country we will celebrate, and these are the people we are one with.