Archetype Quotes · Page 2

By using the systems archetypes we can learn how to “structure” the details into a coherent picture of the forces at play.

— Peter Senge

Just as the archetype of the supermom--the woman who can do it all--minimizes the real needs of women, so too the archetype…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn’t some faction archetype. But the Tris who’s trying…

— Veronica Roth

The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when…

— Margot Adler

I really believe that an awakening, a greater perspective on our lives and existence is happening. It's really the firing of archetypes…

— James Redfield

Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but…

— George C. Wolfe

While archetypes may emanate through us for short periods of time, in what we call numinous experience, no woman can emanate an…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth.... A mother's love isn't cliché,…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The Rain Man;' it is…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

...if we know God our knowledge of... everything will be brought to perfection, and, in so far as is possible, the infinite,…

— Pope Dionysius

All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

— Alan Ball

When I was growing up in school, I wasn't the archetype of the classic American nerd; I was just different.

— Andy Biersack

[Lauren Ambrose's] character [in Can't Hardly Wait] feels real and unexaggerated and becomes sort of a heroine archetype. I think that was…

— David Krumholtz

Thought as such… is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has…

— Anonymous

Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.

— Tilda Swinton

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn’t some faction archetype. But the Tris who’s trying…

— Veronica Roth

I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used…

— Kurt Busiek

Anyway, this huge Lena Dunham interview in Playboy. It felt like a shifting, of some kind. This new female archetype - this…

— Caitlin Rose

History has been male and the future is female. Leaning on women as a body and the female archetype, and not just…

— Antony Hegarty

[10 Things I Hate About You] keeps popping up, and it's become a go-to film specifically for adolescent girls who are trying…

— David Krumholtz

“Donald Trump comes closer than anyone else to being the archetype of the species; crossing genres, he exemplifies all the ways an…

— Geoffrey Nunberg

In the etheric body are centered the forces animating man's physical vehicle, so disease is evidenced in the etheric before it manifests…

— Corinne Heline

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

— Maynard James Keenan