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James Hillman
Age: 85 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 12
Died: 2011
Died: October 27
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Psychologist
Atlantic City
New Jersey
Teacher
Child
Today
Take
Children
Teachers

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It's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans.
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Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.
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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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It's not enough just to be a mother. It's not only the social pressure on mothers by certain kinds of feminism and other sources. There is also economic pressure on them.
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I don't think anything changes until ideas change.
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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.
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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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Art, for example, becomes art therapy. When patients make music, it becomes music therapy. When the arts are used for therapy in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.
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We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.
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Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
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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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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.
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Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.
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Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of imagination that this culture calls education, the destruction of autonomy it calls work, and the destruction of activity it calls entertainment.
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I'm cautious about a lot of words
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Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.
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I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not.
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It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.
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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? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?
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The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.
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