Joseph Campbell Quotes

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.

He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

‎"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.

Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

If a triangle could speak, it would say, in like manner, that God is eminently triangular, while a circle would say that the divine nature is eminently circular. Thus each would ascribe to God its own attributes, would assume itself to be like God, and look on everything else as ill-shaped.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him

Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason.

I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless.

Nature is the difference between the soul and God.

Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

It's easier for me to say what God is not, and then what God is.

Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.