"We live with our archetypes, but can we…" — Poul Anderson
"We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?"
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24 Quotes by Poul Anderson
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He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.
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Will none wipe the sneer of the face of the cosmos?
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I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say,…
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The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems.
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A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.
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Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes…
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So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption…
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Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.
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Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a…
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I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had…
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Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals,…
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What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was…
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More Archetype Quotes
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
— Alan Ball
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Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of…
— Charles Lyell
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In the etheric body are centered the forces animating man's physical vehicle, so disease is evidenced in the etheric before…
— Corinne Heline
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like…
— Laura Dern
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You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.
— Kristin Lehman
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
— Waylon Jennings
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but…
— Umberto Eco
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The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in…
— Carl Jung
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It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to…
— Carl Jung
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What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind…
— Carl Jung
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The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams…
— Carl Jung
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That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating.…
— Brian De Palma
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