Joseph-campbell Quotes

A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in t...

I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives sp...

Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented ...

But if we are to grasp the full value of the materials, we must note that myths are not exactly comp...

The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history or science, it is killed.

Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and senti...

I remember sitting in this cabin in Alaska one evening reading over the notes of all these encounter...