Joseph Campbell Quotes


You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what you mean. You enjoy it.


Citations

Campbell, Joseph. A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living. Edited by Diane K. Osbon, HarperCollins, 1991.

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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.