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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The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth. – Joseph Campbell

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What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else. – Joseph Campbell

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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. – Joseph Campbell

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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

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. – Salman Rushdie

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

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. – Roland Barthes

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