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

— Joseph Campbell

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

— Joseph Campbell

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

— Joseph Campbell

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

— Joseph Campbell

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.

— Joseph Campbell

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. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

— Joseph Campbell

If you want to change the world, change the metaphor.

— Joseph Campbell

If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.

— Joseph Campbell

In America, we have people from all kinds of backgrounds, all in a cluster, together, and consequently law has become very important in this country. Lawyers and law are what hold us together. There is no ethos.

— Joseph Campbell

In marriage, you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

— Joseph Campbell