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Quotes from Mythology and the Individual — Joseph Campbell

1904–1987 United States

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Heresy is the life of a mythology, and orthodoxy is the death.

Mythology and the Individual (1997)

This divorce this is a fatal thing, and a very unfortunate thing, and a totally unnecessary thing.

Mythology and the Individual (1997)

Economics is itself a function of aspiration. It’s what people aspire to that creates the field in which economics works.

Mythology and the Individual (1997)

You must remember: all of the great traditions, and little traditions, in their own time were scientifically correct. That is to say, they were correct in terms of the scientific image of that age.

Mythology and the Individual (1997)

The image of the cosmos must change with the development of the mind and knowledge; otherwise, the mythic statement is lost, and man becomes dissociated from the very basis of his own religious experience.

Mythology and the Individual (1997)

All cultures … have grown out of myths. They are founded on myths.

Mythology and the Individual (1997)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joseph Campbell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.