"What is the cause, though, of the..." - Quote by Joseph Campbell

“We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.”

“Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.”

“The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.”

“Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.”

“Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.”

“Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.”

“So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.”

“There is no self-interest completely unrelated to others' interests. Due to the fundamental interconnectedness which lies at the heart of reality, your interest is also my interest. From this it becomes clear that "my" interest and "your" interest are intimately connected. In a deep sense, they converge.”

“Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.”