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 Copy Share Image
I sometimes get short-tempered in a public situation because I think, Oh God, I can't go back over that again. I can't… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
We vote for Perot. We think he's a great, marvelous, honest man. We send money to his campaign, even though he is… — 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
I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics. — 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
All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer,… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The new age self-help phenomenon is pretty mushy, but it's also very American. Our history is filled with traveling preachers and quack… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I think there is such a thing as a bad seed that comes to flower in certain people. The danger with that… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
How can Hitler, or some other murderer, appear in this world? I don't think any single theory can account for the phenomenon,… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
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 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 think the worst atmosphere for a six-year-old is one in which there are no expectations whatsoever. That is, it's worse for… — 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
