Quote

All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.

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
Beautiful
Anywhere
Bindings
Earth
Everywhere
Cosmological
Body
Failing
Archaic
View
Centers
Poetry
Binding
Broken
Fails
Views
Match
Wonder
Heavenly

More quotes by Joseph Campbell

Image
The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.
Joseph Campbell
Image
The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)
Joseph Campbell
Image
The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them.
Joseph Campbell
Image
The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.
Joseph Campbell
Image
The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive
Joseph Campbell
Image
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
Image
We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.
Joseph Campbell
Image
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
Image
Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.
Joseph Campbell
Image
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
Joseph Campbell
Image
Questing... is not an ego trip it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
Joseph Campbell
Image
What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss
Joseph Campbell
Image
This is an important point about symbols: they do not refer to historical events they refer through historical events to spiritual or psychological principles and powers that are of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and that are everywhere.
Joseph Campbell
Image
A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.
Joseph Campbell
Image
Don't do anything that isn't play
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
Hell is life drying up.
Joseph Campbell
Image
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell
Image
You are the Hero of your own Story.
Joseph Campbell
Image
There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.
Joseph Campbell