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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
James Hillman
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James Hillman
Age: 85 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 12
Died: 2011
Died: October 27
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Atlantic City
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Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.
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I don't think anything changes until ideas change.
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Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
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I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.
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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.
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I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.
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I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not.
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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
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Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn very deeply into the area of their trouble. They want to know more than their doctor. That's a curious thing, and not at all the way it used to be.
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The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
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We cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.
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