A necessary monster.

The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Finally, if you still are growing, you reach the highest archetype, the archetype of the spirit. This is the time when you finally realize…

— Wayne Dyer

What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.

— Carl Jung

Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than…

— Camille Paglia

There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who…

— Dennis Kucinich

Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is usually commenced…

— Charles Lyell

Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our…

— Guillermo del Toro

Once you become a celebrity, you are no longer a person, but an archetype.

— Jennette McCurdy

I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me.

— Patricia Briggs

Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you…

— Connie Zweig

I think people have this stereotypical idea in their head of what a nerd is. People have said to me before, "You're not a…

— Chris Hardwick

Certain mystical philosophers have personified Destiny, and from this point of view each man's personal destiny is his archetype or "other self"--his "angel"--with whom…

— Charles le Gai Eaton

All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the…

— Carl Jung

Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.

— Amy Sherald

My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.

— Ernest Cline