Frasi di Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell
Data di nascita: 26. Marzo 1904
Data di morte: 30. Ottobre 1987
Altri nomi:Джозеф Кемпбелл
Joseph John Campbell è stato un saggista e storico delle religioni statunitense.
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matematico, logico e saggista italianoFrasi Joseph Campbell
„The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.“
— Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
„This is our problem as modern 'enlightened' individuals, for whom all gods and devils have been rationalized out of existence“
— Joseph Campbell
Context: (...) we today (in so far as we are unbelievers, or, if believers, in so far as our inherited beliefs fail to represent the real problems of contemporary life) must face alone, or, at best, with only tentative, impromptu, an not often very effective guidance. This is our problem as modern 'enlightened' individuals, for whom all gods and devils have been rationalized out of existence.
Chapter 2, page 87 (New World Library, 2008)
„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.“
— Joseph Campbell
Context: 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. Doubt comes in, and so forth. 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. So there must be a scientifically validated image. Now you know what has happened: our scientific field has separated itself from the religious field, or vice-versa. … This divorce this is a fatal thing, and a very unfortunate thing, and a totally unnecessary thing.
Lecture 1A, 13:45
„I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.“
— Joseph Campbell
Context: Moyers: Do you ever have the sense of... being helped by hidden hands?
Campbell: All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time — namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
p. 120
„People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking.“
— Joseph Campbell
Context: People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. That's what it's all finally about.
Episode 2, Chapter 4
„Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic“
— Joseph Campbell
Context: Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problem and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind.
Chapter 1
