Joseph Campbell Quotes


There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.


Citations

Campbell, Joseph. The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work. Edited by Phil Cousineau, Harper & Row, 1990, p. 119.

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Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell
  • Born: March 26, 1904
  • Died: October 30, 1987
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Author

Joseph John Campbell was an American professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth.