Escritas

Poems List

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
3
Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.
5
The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.
5
The perfect human being is uninteresting—the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.
3
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
2
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.
2
Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army.
4
The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God.
2
It’s characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.
5
All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy. Because everybody’s mind is capable of true knowledge, you don’t have to have a special authority, or a special revelation telling you that this is the way things should be.
3

Comments (0)

ShareOn Facebook WhatsApp X
Log in to post a comment.

NoComments

Joseph Campbell dedicated his life to the study of myths and their significance in human culture. His extensive research led him to identify common patterns and themes across diverse mythologies, which he articulated in his monomyth theory. This theory posits that many myths share a fundamental structure, revolving around a hero who embarks on an adventure, faces a decisive crisis, and returns transformed. Campbell's work, particularly 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces', has inspired countless creators, including filmmakers like George Lucas, who cited it as a major influence on 'Star Wars'. Campbell was also a popular lecturer and television personality, making complex mythological concepts accessible to a broad audience.