"If you realize what the real problem..." - Quote by Joseph Campbell
If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.
More by Joseph Campbell
“Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.”
“The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves?”
“Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.”
More on Self Discovery
“Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.”
“Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.”
“Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.”
More on Identity
“OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.”
“I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?”
“When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.”