Quotes by Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Explore a curated collection of 15 quotes by Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is — Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
The dreamer is a distinguished operatic artist, and, like all who have elected to follow, not the safely marked general — Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth — Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world. — Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way — Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
But if we are to grasp the full value of the materials, we must note that myths are not exactly comparable to dream. The — Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, i — Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
How to teach again what has been taught correctly it incorrectly 1000 thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mank — Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution. — Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
The battlefield is symbolic of the field of life, where every creature lives on the death of another. A realization of t — Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological m — Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history or science, it is killed. — Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The living images become onl — Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state, — Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Only birth can conquer death—the birth , not of the old thing again, but of something new . — Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces