Joseph Campbell Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• 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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Animal, Sea, Water

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

• This is an important point about symbols: they do not refer to historical events; they refer through historical events to spiritual or psychological principles and powers that are of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and that are everywhere.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spiritual, Yesterday, Historical

• Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Baseball, Moving

• Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.

  Joseph Campbell

  Today, Economics, Governing

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.167, New World Library

• 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 priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them.

  Joseph Campbell

  Moving, Doubt, Atheism

• The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so far as we are unbelievers, or, if believers, in so far as our inherited beliefs fail to represent the real problems of contemporary life) must face alone, or, at best with only tentative, impromptu, and not often very effective guidance. This is our problem as modern, "enlightened" individuals, for whom all gods and devils have been rationalized out of existence.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Religious

• Life, in both its knowing and its doing, has become today a "free fall," so to say, into the next minute, into the future. So that, whereas, formerly, those not wishing to hazard the adventure of an individual life could rest within the pale of a comfortably guaranteed social order, today all the walls have burst. It is not left to us to chooseto hazard the adventure of an unprecedented life: adventure is upon us, like a tidal wave.

  Joseph Campbell

  Wall, Fall, Adventure

  Joseph Campbell (1988). “Myths, dreams, and religion”, Spring Pubns

• One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit. We re interested in the news of the day and the problems of the hour.

  Joseph Campbell

  News, Literature, Today

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.1, Anchor

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