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Quote by Joseph Campbell
He said myths and mythology wasnt to give meaning to life but to g

He said myths and mythology wasnt to give meaning to life but to give us an experience of life, an experience of vitality in being alive. – Joseph Campbell

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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. – Joseph Campbell

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Were so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what its all about. – Joseph Campbell

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It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. – Irwin Edman

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One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. – Mrs. Humphrey Ward

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Myths, Mythology

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. – Wallace Stevens

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It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. – Greil Marcus

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