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James Hillman

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.
— James Hillman education
Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
— James Hillman men
The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.
— James Hillman people
It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.
— James Hillman you
It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.
— James Hillman people
I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.
— James Hillman economics
Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.
— James Hillman courage
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 we drop the pursuit, it's right here.
— James Hillman happiness
If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.
— James Hillman hurt
I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.
— James Hillman god
We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?
— James Hillman people
We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.
— James Hillman change
Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
— James Hillman time
You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.
— James Hillman you
All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?
— James Hillman world
Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
— James Hillman beauty
We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.
— James Hillman soul
Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.
— James Hillman art
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.
— James Hillman war
I don't have answers. I have questions.
— James Hillman questions
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 change
The elder who is eliminating what time has done to the face, what life has done to the face, is making a statement for others to see: This is the way to be a good old person - it is to defeat this body that is doing things to you. Because you haven't changed. Your body's changing.
— James Hillman life
As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.
— James Hillman soul
We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into a certain mold of learning.
— James Hillman education
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. But maybe the ideas cause the disorder. Something tries to break through and causes the disorder.
— James Hillman life
Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we dont want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.
— James Hillman education

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