Joseph Campbell Quotes About Metaphor

Quotes about: Metaphor

• God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

  Joseph Campbell

  God, Simple, Intellectual

• Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Religious, Atheist

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, True Friend, Mind Your Own Business

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.67, Anchor

• If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, World, Want

• There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message?

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Religious, Atheist

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.75, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

  Joseph Campbell

  Narrative, Metaphor, Myth

  Joseph Campbell (2002). “The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion”, p.28, New World Library

• 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

• Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Culture, Alive

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.72, Anchor

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