938 Quotes by Joseph Campbell

When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.

Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.

If you are going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute.

I have a strong feeling that the U.S.A. has lost the world, will be used by everybody as a ‘fall guy’, and is the Dragon to be tricked and plundered: old Fafnir with his gold-horde and grandfatherly willingness to be of help to his own destroyer. My sympathy, this time, is with the Dragon.

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He." You cannot say God is a "She." You cannot say God is an "It." (18)

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.