Archetype Quotes

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Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit… — Carl Jung
Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth - the purpose… — John Stokes
Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to… — R. A. Lafferty
When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love… — Trent Reznor
By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best… — James Hillman
In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long history of suffering… — Robert Neelly Bellah
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this… — Carl Jung
The Birth-chart has to be understood as the archetype or seed-pattern of one's individual being - as the 'symbolic' form of one's individuality, and therefore… — Dane Rudhyar
...if we know God our knowledge of... everything will be brought to perfection, and, in so far as is possible, the infinite, divine and ineffable… — Pope Dionysius
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! — Edmund Husserl
We women, when we're searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes. — Paulo Coelho
Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world. — Johannes Kepler
I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre, because there's a… — Gore Verbinski
Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic… — Guillermo del Toro
More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look.... as if… — John Howe
Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so to speak, one… — Neal Gabler
Hope always draws the soul from the beauty which is seen to what is beyond, always kindles the desire for the hidden through what is… — Gregory of Nyssa
We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them? — Poul Anderson
Colour, Figure, Motion, Extension and the like, considered only so many Sensations in the Mind, are perfectly known, there being nothing in them which is… — George Berkeley

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