Joseph Campbell Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize the positive values in what appear to be the negative moments and aspects of your life. The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Thinking, Tears

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.206, Anchor

• The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Soul, Listening

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.181, Anchor

• We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Wisdom

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.5, Anchor

• What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, School, Technology

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.11, Anchor

• What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, God, Function

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.28, Anchor

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