938 Quotes by Joseph Campbell

Full circle, from to tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb, we come.

Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that’s why everything is so screwy.

The myth is not my own; I have it from my mother. Euripides.

They are equals, but not the same, because when you lose the tension of polarities you lose the tension of life.

It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.

How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind’s prudent folly? That is the hero’s ultimate difficult task.

Chief Seattle, of the Indians that inhabited the Seattle area, wrote a wonderful paper that has to do with putting oneself in tune with the universe. He said.