938 Quotes by Joseph Campbell

Love thine enemies because they are the instruments to your destiny.

The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed.

Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.' Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.

God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion... The hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed.

If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.

I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.