--- title: "10 Needs Quotes By James Hillman" description: "10 Needs quotes by James Hillman. Plus more from James Hillman and more Needs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d1/james-hillman-2336_all-things_the-comic-spirit-masquerades-in-all-thin_3105461.png" --- > [The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/the-comic-spirit-masquerades-in-all-things-we-say-and-do-we-are-each/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hillman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d1/james-hillman-2336_all-things_the-comic-spirit-masquerades-in-all-thin_3105461.png) > [We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/we-need-to-work-on-the-world-so-it-will-not-be-so-oppressive/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hillman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/154/james-hillman-2336_need_we-need-to-work-on-the-world-so-it-will_2226615.png) > [Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/whether-we-like-it-or-not-men-have-more-of-the-offices-more-of-the/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hillman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d54/james-hillman-2336_congress_whether-we-like-it-or-not-men-have-more_2185915.png) > [Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/each-of-us-needs-an-adequate-biography-how-do-i-put-together-into-a/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hillman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93d/james-hillman-2336_adequate_each-of-us-needs-an-adequate-biography-h_1123110.png) > [Beauty is something everybody longs for, needs, and tries to obtain in some way - whether through nature, or a man or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/beauty-is-something-everybody-longs-for-needs-and-tries-to-obtain-in/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hillman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f08/james-hillman-2336_beauty_beauty-is-something-everybody-longs-for_2883374.png) > [Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/psychology-so-dedicated-to-awakening-human-consciousness-needs-to/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hillman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7aa/james-hillman-2336_ancient_psychology-so-dedicated-to-awakening-hum_1031491.png) > [Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/mediocrity-is-no-answer-to-violence-in-fact-it-probably-invites/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hillman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a6/james-hillman-2336_answers_mediocrity-is-no-answer-to-violence-in-f_1017428.png) > [We need to get back to trusting our emotional rapport with children, to seeing a child's beauty and singling that child out.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/we-need-to-get-back-to-trusting-our-emotional-rapport-with-children/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hillman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43b/james-hillman-2336_caught_we-need-to-get-back-to-trusting-our-emot_1661524.png) > [How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/how-can-we-know-ourselves-by-ourselves-soul-needs-intimate-connection/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hillman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f3/james-hillman-2336_and-love_how-can-we-know-ourselves-by-ourselves-s_1330837.jpg) > [It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/it-helps-to-regard-soul-as-an-active-intelligence-forming-and/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hillman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c8/james-hillman-2336_active_it-helps-to-regard-soul-as-an-active-int_1481672.jpg) ## Other authors on Needs ## More by James Hillman > [“Each life is formed by its unique image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny. As…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/each-life-is-formed-by-its-unique-image-an-image-that-is-the-essence/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hillman/) > [Fear is a huge thing for older people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/fear-is-a-huge-thing-for-older-people/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 to buy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/it-s-a-terrible-cruelty-of-predatory-capitalism-both-parents-now-have/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 blessed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/you-know-people-come-to-therapy-really-for-a-blessing-not-so-much-to/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hillman/) > [Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/until-the-culture-recognizes-the-legitimacy-of-growing-down-each/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hillman/) > [ “The first way has been excellently presented by David Holt in his lecture on “Jung and Marx.” \[1\] There Holt shows that Jung imagined his… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/the-first-way-has-been-excellently-presented-by-david-holt-in-his/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hillman/) > [I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/i-m-the-result-of-upbringing-class-race-gender-social-prejudices-and/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hillman/) > [There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/there-is-more-in-a-human-life-than-our-theories-of-it-allow-sooner-or/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hillman/) > [Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/depression-opens-the-door-to-beauty-of-some-kind/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hillman/) > [The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/the-idea-of-death-robs-inquiry-of-its-passionate-vitality-and-empties/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 bad shape.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/i-m-in-favor-of-destruction-aggression-hating-things-not-bearing/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 not a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/in-the-past-friendship-was-a-huge-thing-but-it-s-hard-for-us-to-think/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hillman/) > [Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/psychotherapy-theory-turns-it-all-on-you-you-are-the-one-who-is-wrong/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hillman/) > [The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/the-self-divided-is-precisely-where-the-self-is-authentically-located/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hillman/) > [Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/love-alone-is-not-enough-without-imagination-love-stales-into/) [James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hillman/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/needs/james-hillman/#itemlist", "name": "10 Needs Quotes By James Hillman", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. 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