37 Quotes By 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 on best

Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell on computers

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell on dreams

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

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 on experience

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
Joseph Campbell on experience

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
Joseph Campbell on faith

Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell on friendship

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph Campbell on god

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell on inspirational

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell on life

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell on life

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

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.
Joseph Campbell on life

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Joseph Campbell on life

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Joseph Campbell on life

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Joseph Campbell on life

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Joseph Campbell on life

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Joseph Campbell on life

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 on life