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James Hillman

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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


#fathers #few #founding #founding fathers #happiness

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


— James Hillman


#economics #god #i #i think #miserable

I'm cautious about a lot of words.


— James Hillman


#cautious #i #lot #words

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.


— James Hillman


#know #very #wisdom

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


— James Hillman


#generation #important #look #men #next

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.


— James Hillman


#body #choice #circumstances #curse #forgotten

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


— James Hillman


#control #generally #implication #muscles #negative

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.


— James Hillman


#been #childhoods #enough #many #memories

We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.


— James Hillman


#happens #lives #nothing #out #risk-free

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.


— James Hillman


#being #give #holding #office #value






About James Hillman






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Hillman also rejects causality as a defining framework and suggests in its place a shifting form of fate whereby events are not inevitable but bound to be expressed in some way dependent on the character of the soul of the individual. Hillman does not believe that dreams are simply random residue or flotsam from waking life (as advanced by physiologists) but neither does he believe that dreams are compensatory for the struggles of waking life or are invested with “secret” meanings of how one should live as did Jung. He died at his home in Thompson Connecticut in 2011 from bone cancer.

Jung Institute in Zurich founded a movement toward archetypal psychology and retired into private practice writing and traveling to lecture until his death at his home in Connecticut on October 27 2011. He studied at and then guided studies for the C.

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