"It's very important for men to look downward,……" — James Hillman
"It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation"
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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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More Downward Quotes
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one of 146 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
— Mencius
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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
— Henry David Thoreau
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It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and…
— George Sand
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It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up…
— Edith Wharton
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly…
— Marianne Williamson
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Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the…
— Bertrand Russell
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From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with…
— John Dryden
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Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition…
— Henry Fielding
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The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but…
— Richey Edwards
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