Joseph Campbell Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Kings, Men, Evil

  "Maurice Sendak: "Where the Wild Things Are"". "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2004.

• All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that no one can do who has not himself learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is.

  Joseph Campbell

  Evil, Joy, Sorrow

  "Myths to Live By".

• She was ... the arch personification of the power of Space, Time, and Matter, within whose bound all beings arise and die: the substance of their bodies, configurator of their lives and thoughts, and receiver of their dead. And everything having form or name-including God personified as good or evil, merciful or wrathful-was her child, within her womb.

  Joseph Campbell

  Children, Names, Space

  Joseph Campbell (1991). “The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology”, Penguin Group USA

• The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

  Joseph Campbell

  Men, Garden, Thinking

  Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.50, New World Library

• You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.

  Joseph Campbell

  Evil, Alive, Irony

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.80, Anchor

• The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fall, Biblical, Discovery

• The process of nature cannot be evil.

  Joseph Campbell

  Evil, Process

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

  Joseph Campbell

  Light, Evil, Results

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