Quote

The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.

Joseph Campbell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Dreamer
Myth
Private
Public
Dream
Love

More quotes by Joseph Campbell

Image
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph Campbell
Image
Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.
Joseph Campbell
Image
The actual point in question, throughout the centuries of Christian persecution, has never been faith in God, but faith in the Bible as the word of God, and in the Church (this Church or that) as the interpreter of that word.
Joseph Campbell
Image
Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.
Joseph Campbell
Image
You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ, or the miracles don't make sense.
Joseph Campbell
Image
Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.
Joseph Campbell
Image
Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute.
Joseph Campbell
Image
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell
Image
Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
Joseph Campbell
Image
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
Joseph Campbell
Image
The myth does not point to a fact the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact
Joseph Campbell
Image
As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face
Joseph Campbell
Image
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center.
Joseph Campbell
Image
Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of course the characteristic of Faust, which makes him eligible to be saved, is that he seeks aims that are not those of the machine.
Joseph Campbell
Image
There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.
Joseph Campbell
Image
When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.
Joseph Campbell
Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.
Joseph Campbell
Image
We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.
Joseph Campbell
Image
What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss
Joseph Campbell
Image
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.
Joseph Campbell