248 Quotes by James Hillman

We cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet...

I'm cautious about a lot of words

We are driven by the results of the Big Bang, billions of years ago, which eventually produced life, which eventually produced human beings, and so on. But me? I'm an accident - a result - and therefore a victim.

It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.

Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There is a strategy, an overall concept, and there are tactics along the way…Tradition would say I was a 'child of Mars.'

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

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

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

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