Joseph Campbell Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Change
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  Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Technology, Civilization

  "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (The Message of the Myth)". TV Mini-Series, June 22, 1988.

• 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

• All religions are true but none are literal.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero Journey, Religion

• We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea. To say that divinity informs the world and all things is condemned as pantheism. But pantheism is a misleading word. It suggests that a personal god is supposed to inhabit the world, but that is not the idea at all. The idea is trans-theological. It is of an indefinable, inconceivable mystery, thought of as a power, that is the source and end and supporting ground of all life and being.

  Joseph Campbell

  Nature, Animal, Sea

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.40, Anchor

• The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . . In the Middle Ages, that was the kind of marriage that was sanctified by the Church. And so the troubadour idea of real person-to-person Amor was very dangerous. . . . It is in direct contradiction to the way of the Church. The word AMOR spelt backwards is ROMA, the Roman Catholic Church, which was justifying marriages that were simply political and social in their character. And so came this movement validating individual choice, what I call following your bliss.

  Joseph Campbell

  Real, Character, Individual Choice

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Men, Imagination, Religion

• Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Real, People

  Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.8, New World Library

• Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

  Joseph Campbell

  Religion, Mystery, Metaphorical

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