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Joseph Campbell Quotes

Joseph Campbell quotes about humanity

American Author March 26, 1904 – October 31, 1987

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What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe. Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man,..."
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary. Joseph Campbell
The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination. 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. Joseph Campbell
Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He." You cannot say God is a "She." You cannot say God is an "It." (18) Joseph Campbell
But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found. Joseph Campbell
Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes? Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "The ultimate, unqualified mystery is beyond Human experience"
The ultimate, unqualified mystery is beyond Human experience Joseph Campbell

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