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Joseph Campbell was an American writer, scholar, and mythologist, renowned for his studies of world mythology. His work, 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces', has had a profound impact on modern culture, widely used in literature, film, and psychology fields.

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“...we are united to those immortal images of initiatory might, through the sacramental operation of which, man, since the beginning of his day on earth, has dispelled the terrors of his phenomenality and won through to the all-transfiguring vision of immortal being.”

Life Mind Death Psychology Myth Origin

Book:The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces

“The crux of the curious difficulty lies in the fact that our conscious views of what life ought to be seldom correspond to what life really is.”

Life Mind Death Suffering Psychology Myth Origin

Book:The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces

“Woman, in the picture language of mythology, represents the totality of what can be known. The hero is the one who comes to know.”

Life Mind Death Psychology Myth Woman Origin Symbol

Book:The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces

“Only birth can conquer death—the birth , not of the old thing again, but of something new .”

Death Birth New

Book:The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces

“The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.”

Life Pain Death Time Change Acceptance Sorrow

Author:Joseph Campbell

About the Author

Born: March 26, 1904
Died: October 30, 1987
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 134

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The Power of MythRelated source material

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