Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell was an American mythologist, writer, and educator whose work on comparative mythology, notably the concept of the Hero’s Journey, has influenced literature, film, and academia.
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Background
- Born in
- White Plains
- Educated at
- Dartmouth CollegeLudwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenUniversity of ParisColumbia University
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Trending topics shown first"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls."
"If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's."
"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."
"You enter the forestat the darkest point,where there is no path.Where there is a way or path,it is someone else's path.You are not on your own path.If you follow someone else's way,you are not going t…"
"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."
"Marx teaches us to blame society for our frailties, Freud teaches us to blame our parents, and astrology teaches us to blame the universe. The only place to look for blame is within: you didn't have t…"
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Timeline
1904
Born
Birth1987
Died
Death
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