938 Quotes by Joseph Campbell

We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.

What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?

Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is ... The world is a match for us, and we’re a match for the world. And where it seems most challenging lies the greatest invitation to find deeper and greater power in ourselves.

It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth.

Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.

The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.

What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.

We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.