Quotes by James Hillman

“To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.”

“Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.”

“Psychology ideally means giving soul to language and finding language for soul.”

“I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...”

“...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critic...”

“The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.”

“What door is opened into soul through our wounds.”

“Fatalism accounts for life as a whole. Whatever happens can be fit within the large generality of individuation, or my journey, or growth. Fatalism comforts, for it raises no questions. There's no ...”

“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.”

“The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as...”

“It's very hard to know what wisdom is.”

“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?”

“The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? H...”

“I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.”

“Each life is formed by its unique image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny. As the force of fate, this image acts as a personal daimon, an accompanying guide who r...”

“If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing ...”