"It's better to go into the world half-cocked……" — James Hillman
"It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all."
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87 Quotes by James Hillman
James Hillman has 87 quotes on this site.
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The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero.…
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The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need…
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Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for,…
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How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply…
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We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.
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Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness…
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We would like otherworldly visitations to come as distinct voices with clear instructions, but they may only give small signs…
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By seeing differently, we do differently
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I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch…
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Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped…
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Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.
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Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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