248 Quotes by James Hillman

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us....

The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer?

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

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

Each person enters the world called.

The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change.

Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very idea of the world. They require a cosmological vision that saves the phenomenon 'world' itself, a move in soul that goes beyond measures of expediency to the archetypal source of our world's continuing peril: the fateful neglect, the repression, of the anima mundi.