Joseph Campbell Quotes

• When Boeing goes down, it goes down for several years.

  Joseph Campbell

• Heroism is a matter of integrity–becoming more and more at each step ourselves.

  Joseph Campbell

• Everybody’s going to be looking at these little bits and pieces and deciding what they like and don’t like. There’s enough attractive pieces in that business that quite a few people will express an interest.

  Joseph Campbell

• If you assume these 17,000 guys go away and never come back, it’d make a difference. But if they come back in two weeks rather than one week, I don’t see it making a difference. They don’t even have a strike fund. I’m a long way from getting worried.

  Joseph Campbell

• The new company is an aerospace colossus.

  Joseph Campbell

• 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.

  Joseph Campbell

• The goal is to live with godlike composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.

  Joseph Campbell

• If you can see your path laid out
  in front of you step by step, you know
  it’s not your path. Your own path you
  make with every step you take. That’s
  why it’s your path.

  Joseph Campbell

• God is Within You! You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.

  Joseph Campbell

• When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair, they’ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

  Joseph Campbell

• A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Computer, God

  Tags in Testament, Mercy

• If you realize what the real problem is – losing yourself – you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

  Joseph Campbell

• Love thine enemies because they are the instruments to your destiny.

  Joseph Campbell

• What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

  Joseph Campbell

• One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Humanity

• The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adventure, Hearty

• The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as ‘the wasteland.’ The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. It’s the world of people living inauthentic lives – doing what they are supposed to do.

  Joseph Campbell

• 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.

  Joseph Campbell

• The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated Decembe.

  Joseph Campbell

  Tags in Christianity

• Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Tags in Myths

Joseph Campbell (77)

Birth:	26th March, 1904
Death:	30th October, 1987
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Mythologist, Lecturer, Scholar, Writer

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