James Hillman

In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's…

— James Hillman

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

— James Hillman

“miracle it is to find the right words, words that carry soul accurately,”

— James Hillman

Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche.

— James Hillman

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

— James Hillman

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation

— James Hillman

You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken…

— James Hillman

Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have…

— James Hillman

Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and…

— James Hillman

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re…

— James Hillman

My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out.…

— James Hillman

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as…

— James Hillman

Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness…

— James Hillman

Well, if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes. There is no deeper meaning…

— James Hillman

I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world.…

— James Hillman

I'm in favor of destruction, aggression, hating things. Not bearing things anymore. We think the breakdown comes because our life is in…

— James Hillman

I think there is such a thing as a bad seed that comes to flower in certain people. The danger with that…

— James Hillman

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of…

— James Hillman

We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses…

— James Hillman

It's a terrible cruelty of predatory capitalism: both parents now have to work. A family has to have two incomes in order…

— James Hillman

...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're…

— James Hillman

As the popular trust in science fades - and many sociologists say that's happening today - people will develop a distrust of…

— James Hillman

I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and…

— James Hillman

There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto…

— James Hillman

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's…

— James Hillman

You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.

— James Hillman

It's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans.

— James Hillman

“Attention does for consciousness what our hands do for our bodies: it grabs hold of nature so that we can change it”

— James Hillman

Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

— James Hillman

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us…

— James Hillman

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

— James Hillman

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

— James Hillman

Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

— James Hillman

The whole culture is under terrible pressure and fraught with worry. It's hard to get out of that box. That's the dominant…

— James Hillman

“Perhaps Eurydice wants to remain marginal, a shade insubstantial… the mute waste in a limbo without light and without depth are a…

— James Hillman

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or…

— James Hillman

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If…

— James Hillman

We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back…

— James Hillman

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer,…

— James Hillman

Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There…

— James Hillman