Hero With A 1000 Faces Quotes & Sayings

But if we are to grasp the full value of the materials, we must note that myths are not exactly comparable to dream. Their figures originate from the same sources -- the unconscious wells of fantasy-- and their grammar is the same, but they are not the spontaneous products of sleep. On the contrary their patterns are consciously controlled. And their understood function is to serve as powerful picture language for the communication of traditional wisdom. — Joseph Campbell

The best pastas are cut with bronze dies that give them a rough texture and allow the sauce to cling. — Joe Bastianich

Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all. — Catherynne M Valente

All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula. — Barton Gellman

The law may upset reason but reason may never upset the law, or our whole society will shred like an old tatami. The law may be used to confound reason, reason must certainly not be used to overthrow the law. — James Clavell

The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that key knot of his limited existence. — Joseph Campbell

What Paul means in chapter 3 when, after he has thrown out the works of the law, he sounds as though the wants to abolish the law by faith. No, he says, we uphold the law through faith, — Martin Luther

William loathed his family,' Mercer said. 'With cause. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Full circle from the tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb we come, an ambiguous, enigmatical incursion into a world of solid matter that is soon to melt from us like the substance of a dream. — Joseph Campbell

Creativity is the essence of fencing. — Charles Allen

Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood. — Joseph Campbell

Sex is flagrantly separated from reproduction in a few species, including bonobos and dolphins. — Jared Diamond

The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution. — Joseph Campbell