One of the many distinctions between the celebrity and the hero, he said, is that one lives for self while the other acts to redeem society. - Joseph Campbell

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One of the many distinctions between the celebrity and the hero, he said, is that one lives for self while the other acts to redeem society.

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About Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell (26 March 1904 – 30 October 1987) was an American professor, writer, and orator most famous for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion.

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Birth Name: Joseph John Campbell Smith
Alternative Names: Joseph John Campbell • Joseph Cambell
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Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience.
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