938 Quotes by Joseph Campbell

facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter,' as my friend the late Maya Deren once phrased the mystery.

It is a basic idea of practically every war mythology that the enemy is a monster and that in killing him one is protecting the only truly valuable order of human life on earth, which is that, of course, of one's own people.

With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage.

When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.

Art brings out the grand lines of nature. Antione Bourdelle

As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off. Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance. Having a sense of humor saves you.

Todos los dioses, todos los cielos, todos los infiernos, están en ti.

The idea of Truth with capital "T"-that there is something called Truth that's beyond the range of the relativity of the human mind trying to think-is what I call "the error of the found truth." The trouble with all of these damned preachers is the error of the found truth. When they get that tremolo in the voice and tell you what God has said, you know you've got a faker.

Lo que el creativo saca a la luz es algo que estaba esperando ser extraído en todos.