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
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Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or place. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact
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Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important.
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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.
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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.
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The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater lifes pain, the greater lifes reply.
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Words are always qualifications and limitations. That's why it is a peak experience to break past all that, every now and then, and to realize, ""Oh...... ah.....
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God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
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Heroism is a matter of integrity--becoming more and more at each step ourselves.
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When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
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We do not think the Boeing IAM workers will strike when their contract expires on Sept. 2.
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At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.