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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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“Apparently the most permanent of the dispositions of the human psyche are those that derive from the fact that, of all animals, we remain the longest at the mother breast.”

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Book:The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces

“Human beings are born too soon; they are unfinished, unready as yet to meet the world. Consequently their whole defense from a universe of dangers is the mother, under whose protection the intra-uterine period is prolonged.”

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Book:The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces

“Mythology is not invented rationally; mythology cannot be rationally understood.”

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Book:The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology

Source: The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology

“For the human mind in its polarity of the male and female modes of experience, in its passages from infancy to adulthood and old age, in its toughness and tenderness, and in its continuing dialogue with the world, is the ultimate mythogenetic zone -the creator and destroyer, the slave and yet the master, of all the gods.”

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Book:The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology

Source: The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology

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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