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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
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 problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point — to shatter and annihilate that key knot of his limited existence.
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