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Quotes About Archetypal

archetypal middleman; his career had coasted to that comfortable plateau above those who actually did productive work, but safely short of a position where he had to make any vital decisions.
~ Peter Watts
Billing was an archetypal playboy, 'fascinated by fast aircraft, fast speed-boats, fast cars and fast women – he was highly attractive to women
~ Philip Hoare
I have my own cosmology that's kind of like an esoteric mix of a lot of different things that work for me and that to me, are worth exploring. There is a little bit of the archetypal Christianity that I've kind of reconciled because when you're raised that way, inevitably that infrastructure will persist into your adulthood.
~ Weyes Blood
All stories boil down to good vs. evil, and that's what the archetypal American Western was.
~ W. Earl Brown
Jung speaks of two orders of dream, the personal dream and the archetypal dream, or the dream of mythic dimension.
~ Joseph Campbell
Returning, for clarification, to DNA as our archetypal replicator, its consequences on the world are of two important types. Firstly, it makes copies of itself, making use of the cellular apparatus of replicases, etc. Secondly, it has effects on the outside world, which influence the chances of its copies' surviving.
~ Richard Dawkins
I don't have a general archetypal platonic shadow, 'acting' concept about it.
~ Tom Sturridge
At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then
~ Alison Bechdel
This archetypal circuit is replete with what Jung called synchronicities — meaningful coincidences — which he attributed to the circuit's roots in what he called the "psychoid" level, below the personal and collective unconscious, where "mind" and matter" are not yet differentiated — the royal highway of the DNA-RNA-CNS (central nervous system) telegraph, in Tim Leary's metaphor.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Perhaps, above all, Gladstone should be seen as an archetypal figure of the Victorian age, though he was never appreciated by its figurehead, whose interests he had tried so devotedly and so unrewardingly to serve.
~ Dick Leonard
The collective and the group members do not experience the world objectively, but mythologically, in archetypal images and symbols; and their reaction to it is archetypal, instinctive, and unconscious, not individual and conscious.
~ Erich Neumann
Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.
~ James Surowiecki
People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.
~ Kate Bernheimer
The highest part of the soul that corresponds to Atziluth, the Archetypal World, and the Yod of the Tetragrammaton, is called the Chiah.
~ Lon Milo DuQuette
Witches were part of my imaginary childhood playground, so I wanted to make an archetypal fairytale about the mythic idea of what New England was to me as a kid.
~ Robert Eggers
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~ John Wayne
Two classical and archetypal structures. . . . the stranger comes to town and the journey [Sharon Creech, "Leaping Off the Porch"].
~ barbara harrison
Why, if evolution were a free for all, restrained only by selection for fitness, why did Australia not produce some of the bug-eyed monsters of science fiction? The only moderately unorthodox creation of that isolated island in a hundred million years are the kangaroos and wallabies; the rest of its fauna consists of rather poor replicas of more efficient placental types-vatiations on a limited number of archetypal themes.
~ Arthur Koestler
The noble savage Rousseau described, however, was an ideal—an abstraction, archetypal and religious—and not the flesh-and-blood reality he supposed.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
The En Soph, not being an object of cognition, made his existence known in the creation of the world by means of attributes or mediums, the ten Sephiroth, or intelligences, radiations, emanations, emanating from the En Soph, and which in their totality represent and are called the Adam Kadmon, the "Primordial or Archetypal Man.
~ Bernhard Pick
Tons of folktales have to do with hares and witches. Basically, witches all over Europe turn into hares and are able to do malevolent things in the form of a hare. It goes back to the great god Pan. Pan is, if we're going to do archetypal projections, related to the Christian Satan, but as a child, Pan was wrapped in a hare's hide.
~ Robert Eggers
My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.
~ Graham Swift
It considers this Jesus as ultimately decisive, definitive, archetypal for man in these various dimensions of his.
~ Hans Kung