Joseph Campbell

Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.

computers


Joseph Campbell

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

dreams


Joseph Campbell

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

experience


Joseph Campbell

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

experience


Joseph Campbell

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

experience


Joseph Campbell

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

faith


Joseph Campbell

Love is a friendship set to music.

friendship


Joseph Campbell

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

god


Joseph Campbell

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

life


Joseph Campbell

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

life


Joseph Campbell

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

life


Joseph Campbell

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

life


Joseph Campbell

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

life


Joseph Campbell

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

life


Joseph Campbell

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

life


Joseph Campbell

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

life


Joseph Campbell

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

life


Joseph Campbell

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

life


Joseph Campbell

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

life


Joseph Campbell

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

love


Joseph Campbell

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

marriage


Joseph Campbell

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

marriage


Joseph Campbell

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

money


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