Joseph Campbell

the lesson being, not “Do thus and be good,” but “Know this and be God.”

He is Holdfast not because he keeps the past but because he keeps.

but from the second, with the knowledge that “I and the father are one.”

The god who is the creator becomes the destroyer in the end.

The hero of yesterday becomes the tyrant of tomorrow, unless he crucifies himself today.

It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.