6 Quotes About Archetype

Archetypes are the most powerful forces in the universe. They are the very essence of who we are, how we are wired, and what our purpose is. If you’re looking to understand who you are, what you stand for, and how to get more of it into your life, read on. These archetypes quotes will help you to better understand yourself and others.

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We're actors – we're the opposite of people! Tom Stoppard
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The Alchemical world view, in stark contrast to the scientific world view, where rational deterministic man is completely separated from both Nature and the Self, in fact the Self does not even exist. In the alchemical world view, all three are inextricably woven together and in "synchronistic" or "archetypal" events & occurrences in one's life, all distinctions between them blur and almost disappear. Craig Nelson
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If it be true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be no empirical knowledge that is not already caught and limited by the a priori structure of cognition. C.g. Jung
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...Understanding as had the ancients that angels and demons were identical- interchangeable archetypes- all a matter of polarity: the guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer... Dan Brown
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Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with myths can unify a culture. The forces of imagination and the Apollonian dream are saved only by myth from indiscriminate rambling. The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, ubiquitous but unnoticed, presiding over the growth of the child's mind and interpreting to the mature man his life and struggles. . Friedrich Nietzsche