Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.
Joseph Campbell
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
Academic
Anthropologist
Essayist
Ethnologist
Historian
Historian Of Religion
Lecturer
Mythologist
Orator
Researcher
Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
Thousand
Folly
Learned
Throughout
Taught
Task
Teach
Tasks
Times
Hero
Millenniums
Difficult
Ultimate
Incorrectly
Inspirational
However
Correctly
Mankind
Prudent
More quotes by Joseph Campbell
Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.
Joseph Campbell
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy-not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call following your bliss.
Joseph Campbell
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
Joseph Campbell
There have been systems of religion where the mother is the prime parent, the source, and she's really a more immediate parent than the father, because one is born from the mother...so that the image of the woman is the image of the world.
Joseph Campbell
Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.
Joseph Campbell
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.
Joseph Campbell
Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.
Joseph Campbell
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
Joseph Campbell
Our life has become so economic and practical in its orientation that, as you get older, the claims of the moment upon you are so great, you hardly know where the hell you are, or what it is you intended. You are always doing something that is required of you. Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.
Joseph Campbell
The entire heavenly realm is within us, but to find it we have to relate to what's outside.
Joseph Campbell
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
Joseph Campbell
The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.
Joseph Campbell
You've got to find the force inside you.
Joseph Campbell
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now. It is a dimension of the human spirit -- which is eternal. Find that eternal dimension in yourself, and you will ride through time, and throughout the whole length of your days.
Joseph Campbell
The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life in virtue as a devastating storm.
Joseph Campbell
We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
Joseph Campbell
The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.
Joseph Campbell
You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.
Joseph Campbell
We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us
Joseph Campbell
