The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident -… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
People used to trust their doctor. They went to an expert. Now people have new ideas and are thinking for themselves. That's… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
As the popular trust in science fades - and many sociologists say that's happening today - people will develop a distrust of… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak,… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Beauty is something everybody longs for, needs, and tries to obtain in some way - whether through nature, or a man or… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“Each life is formed by its unique image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny. As… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
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… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
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. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“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… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
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.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
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… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
