Joseph Campbell

The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.

Joseph Campbell

There’s always the possibility of a fiasco. But there’s also the possibility of bliss.

Joseph Campbell

To translate knowledge and information into experience: that seems to be the function of literature and art.

Joseph Campbell

Tragedy is an unfinished comedy.

Joseph Campbell

Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.

Joseph Campbell

We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recongnize your own depth.

Joseph Campbell

We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.

Joseph Campbell

We are the consciousness of the earth. We are the eyes of the earth. The voice of the earth.

Joseph Campbell

We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.

Joseph Campbell

We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

Joseph Campbell