Joseph Campbell

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.

Joseph Campbell

Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.

Joseph Campbell

Love thine enemies because they are the instruments of your destiny.

Joseph Campbell

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.

Joseph Campbell

Man should not submit to the powers from outside but command them. How to do it is the problem.

Joseph Campbell

Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.

Joseph Campbell

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it’s an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

Joseph Campbell

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

Joseph Campbell

Myth is the public dream, and dream is the private myth.

Joseph Campbell

Myth is what we call other people’s religion.

Joseph Campbell