"The senses are a kind of reason...." - Quote by Joseph Campbell

“Men sometimes confess they love war because it puts them in touch with the experience of being alive. In going to the office every day, you don't get that experience, but suddenly in war, you are ripped back into being alive. Life is pain; life is suffering; and life is horror - but, by God, you are alive.”

“Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.”

“The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.”

“Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.”

“The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.”

“I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other way to take it in. 'You're not special. That's how I receive it too... I tried to taste it, but it did not work'.”

“To understand the limitation of things, desire them.”

“The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of trigonometry, the facts of history, the properties of material things, are all known to us as definite systems or groups of objects which cohere in an order fixed by innumerable iterations, and of which any one part reminds us of the others.”

“When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.”