Joseph Campbell Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These energies are the source, then, of mythological imagery; in a mythological organization of symbols, the conflicts between the different organic impulses within the body are resolved and harmonized. You might say mythology is a formula for the harmonization of the energies of life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Moving, Thinking, Organization

• There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call a terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come.

  Joseph Campbell

  Relationship, Broken, Imagination

  "Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor".

• What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?

  Joseph Campbell

  Men, Imagination, Religion

• Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.

  Joseph Campbell

  Men, Imagination, World

  Joseph Campbell (2007). “The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959-1987”, p.16, New World Library

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin