James Hillman Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

“I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.”

“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.”

“The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?”

“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.”

“Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough.”

“The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.”

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

“We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.”

“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.”