938 Quotes by Joseph Campbell

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

I don't have faith, I have experience.

There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call the terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as life in relation to myth.

...suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, "I hope this child hangs on to that."

The process of nature cannot be evil.

What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss