Splendid Isolation (1980) New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 38
“One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.”
Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
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American mythologist, writer and lecturer 1904–1987Related quotes

“I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.”

“Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.”

“It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.”
Source: The Best of Me
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
Quote of Ad Reinhardt (1963); as cited in: Joseph Kosuth, (1969), " Art after Philosophy http://www.ubu.com/papers/kosuth_philosophy.html"
1956 - 1967
Variant: The one thing to say about art is that it is one thing. Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else. Art as art is nothing but art. Art is not what is not art.


“Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.”
K 13
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook K (1789-1793)

Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story