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Joseph Campbell Quotes

1904-1987

 

 
 

  • "Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths."

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

  • "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."

  • "We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

  • "Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning."

  • "I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."

  • "God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."

  • "Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before."

  • "Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble."

  • "A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. "


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