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"Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble."

Joseph Campbell on Religion

More quotes about Religion

  • "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness."

    Dalai Lama on Religion

  • "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Religion

  • "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

    C. S. Lewis on Religion

  • "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."

    C. S. Lewis on Religion

  • "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."

    Albert Camus on Religion

More quotes by Joseph Campbell

  • "One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that."

  • "Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy."

  • "Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths."

  • "I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."

  • "What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else."

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