Citations de Joseph Campbell

Citation originale : "A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." The Power of Myth

Autre traduction possible : "Le héros est celui qui sacrifie sa vie à quelque chose de plus grand que lui."

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

Citation originale : "The metaphor is the mask of God through which eternity is to be experienced."

Citation originale "The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." qui est un résumé d'une autre phrase de J . Campbell : "Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave, that was so dreaded, has become the center."

Manifestement cette citation semble bien connue des amateurs de la série "Esprits Criminels" (Saison 7, épisode 8 "Hope" )

En anglais : "Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain."

extrait : "...because a dream is a personal experience of that deep, dark ground that is the support of our conscious lives, and a myth is the society's dream. The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the society, you are in good accord with your." (The power of the myth )