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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world

Joseph Campbell

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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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Anthropologist
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Historian Of Religion
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Mythologist
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Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
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There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.
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Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.
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If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.
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When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
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What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.
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I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out.
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The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on the face of the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone? Has anything happened? Nothing has happened. It is a play, a game, a dance.
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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.
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He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to life. We are not there until we can say 'yea' to it all.
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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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