Quotes of James Hillman - somelinesforyou

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

- James Hillman

“ We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive. ”

- James Hillman

“ I would rather define self as the interiorization of community. ”

- James Hillman

“ 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

“ 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

“ When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition. ”

- James Hillman

“ We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive. ”

- James Hillman

“ When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition. ”

- James Hillman

“ 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

“ 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

“ When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition. ”

- James Hillman

“ We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive. ”

- James Hillman

“ You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy. ”

- James Hillman

“ I would rather define self as the interiorization of community. ”

- James Hillman

“ I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate. ”

- James Hillman

“ I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate. ”

- James Hillman

“ You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss. ”

- James Hillman

“ The goal of my therapy is eccentricity. ”

- James Hillman

“ I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics. ”

- James Hillman

“ We forget that the soul has its own ancestors. ”

- James Hillman

“ We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security. ”

- James Hillman

“ There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path. You may remember this "something" as a signal moment in childhood when an urge out of nowhere, a fascination, a peculiar turn of events struck like an annunciation: This is what I must do, this is what I've got to have… ”

- James Hillman

“ You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss. ”

- James Hillman

“ It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation. ”

- James Hillman

“ We forget that the soul has its own ancestors. ”

- James Hillman

“ We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security. ”

- James Hillman

“ I don't want the demons taken away because they're going to take my angels too. ”

- James Hillman

“ 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. ”

- James Hillman

“ It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it. ”

- James Hillman

“ 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. ”

- James Hillman
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