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Explore our hand-picked selection of 142 inspiring quotes by James Hillman.

About James Hillman

  • Born: April 12, 1926
  • Died: October 27, 2011
  • Occupation: Psychologist
    • It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation
    Men Important Generations
    We have to give value to authority. we have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.
    Giving Office Holding On
    By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best comparable with a god
    Cosmos Archetype Settings
    Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in congress. men need to re-examine what their power is. we need to understand how to use it.
    Jobs Men Office
    We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.
    Inspirational Goal Vices
    I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. so i'm a victim again. a result.
    Race Class Prejudice
    The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. what are people talking about? are they talking about muscles, or control?
    Talking People Negative
    Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. i confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. there is a strategy, an overall concept, and there are tactics along the way…tradition would say i was a 'child of mars.'
    Children Military Book
    It's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans.
    Way Humans
    What i try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. you have to have a feeling for the child.
    Children Destiny Feelings
    The new age self-help phenomenon is pretty mushy, but it's also very american. our history is filled with traveling preachers and quack medicine and searches for the soul. i don't see this as a new thing. i think the new age is part of a phenomenon that's been there all along.
    Thinking Self Medicine
    As the popular trust in science fades - and many sociologists say that's happening today - people will develop a distrust of purely "scientific" psychology. researchers in the universities haven't picked up on this; they're more interested in genetics and computer models of thinking than ever. but, in general, there is a huge distrust of the scientific establishment now.
    Thinking People Psychology
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