Geburtsdatum | Samstag, 26. März 1904 |
Geburtsort | White Plains, New York, U.S. |
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Beschreibung | Joseph John Campbell (26. März 1904 - 30. Oktober 1987) war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Er war Literaturprofessor am Sarah Lawrence College und beschäftigte sich mit vergleichender Mythologie und vergleichender Religion. Sein Werk deckt viele Aspekte der menschlichen Erfahrung ab. Campbells bekanntestes Werk ist sein Buch The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in dem er seine Theorie der Reise des archetypischen Helden erörtert, die den Weltmythologien gemeinsam ist und als Monomythos bezeichnet wird. |
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Love is a friendship set to music.
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
