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What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?
Joseph Campbell
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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
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You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.
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There is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail.
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This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out.
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.
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What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?
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The goal is to live with God like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
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The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience - that is the hero's deed.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world
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