Joseph Campbell Quotes

The truth is that I don't really care what everyone thinks.

I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

I don't care what people think.

I chose not to react to everyone's opinion.

I don't really care what people think of me.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. My job is to come out here and hoop, and that's what I'm going to do.

The whole world might not understand. I don't really care.

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

Study everything, join nothing.

One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous.

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

I'm just somebody that isn't that impressed by [Michael Jordan]. There really isn't anybody in the world I'm impressed with.

Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.

I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.

Do I run around deploring the world? No. I'm just not into it. I was brought up that way.

Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.

It's all the same to the clam.

The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.

The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune.

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.

I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.