The virtue of heroism
The virtue of heroism must lie, therefore . . . not in the will to reform, but in the courage to affirm, the nature of the universe.
The virtue of heroism must lie, therefore . . . not in the will to reform, but in the courage to affirm, the nature of the universe.
-- Joseph Campbell
The Masks of God™ Volume 3: Occidental Mythology (p. 319)
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