Joseph Campbell Quote

The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest. The future is regarded not in terms of an unremitting series of deaths and births, but as though one's present system of ideals, virtues, goals, and advantages were to be fixed and made secure.


The hero with a thousand faces (ed. 1949)


The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest....

The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest....

The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest....

The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest....