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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
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Yes, we worship the idea of the self-made man - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.
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I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose.
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As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.
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Fear is a huge thing for older people.
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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
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I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.
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Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time no one has any leisure.
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If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of people and crossing of borders, imagination.
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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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I sometimes get short-tempered in a public situation because I think, Oh God, I can't go back over that again. I can't put that into a two-word answer. I can't. Wherever I go, people say, Can I ask you a quick question? It's always, a quick question. Well, my answers are slow.
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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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To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.
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We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.
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Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there’s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.
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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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Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.
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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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I'm cautious about a lot of words
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I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not.
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The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.
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