Hero Of A Thousand Faces Quotes

#1. The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that key knot of his limited existence.

Joseph Campbell

#2. Label celebrity a consumer society's most precious consumer product, and eventually it becomes the hero with a thousand faces, the packaging of the society's art and politics, the framework of its commerce, and the stuff of its religion.

Lewis H. Lapham

#3. I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

Norman Spinrad

#4. Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.

Joseph Campbell

#5. I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph Campbell, who I love. He wrote The Hero of a Thousand Faces. It's about exploring what is heroic in you. It helps me a lot.

Viola Davis

#6. In the beginning - not now, thank God - Patty was always sharing the important books of her life with him, like Black Elk Speaks, The Golden Bough, and Hero with a Thousand Faces.

Richard Price

#7. The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.

Joseph Campbell