Archetype Quote by Carl Jung

Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed…

— Carl Jung

Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.

— Simone de Beauvoir

The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.

— Terence McKenna

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

— Edmund Burke

Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.

— William S. Burroughs

Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.

— Anne Tyler

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

— James Lane Allen

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

— Henry David Thoreau

So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something…

— Wendell Berry

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

— Sigmund Freud

The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't…

— Jasper Johns

What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.

— Mahatma Gandhi