James Hillman's Quotes

James Hillman's Quotes 18

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam you blame the theory behind the war....

We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We...

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The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What...

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a...

In the history of the treatment of depression there was the dunking stool...

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I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I...

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think...

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of...

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The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into...

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American...

Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose....

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas until we begin to see...

The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about...

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to...

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school...