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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

Joseph Campbell

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Delight Psycology Water
There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Divine Live
The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Dreams Move Personality Power World
When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

God Inspirational Motivational Open Path True Yourself
We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Achievement Alive Association Engagement Purpose
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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Demon Himself Man Tame World
The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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Fascination Fire Interest Mystery
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Art Carry Wings Yourself
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Old Oneself Proverb Skin
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Day Heart Home Mindset Place Promise Yourself
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

End Fact Ignorance Ourselves
If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

God Inspirational Patience Yourself
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Artist Love Mistake Perfection Person

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

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