938 Quotes by Joseph Campbell

Myth is the public dream, and dream is the private myth.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed by a single being in which all the dream characters are dreaming too, has in India enchanted and shaped the entire civilization.

When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We're not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

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.

Love is exactly as strong as life.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.