248 Quotes by James Hillman

The psyche is highly flammable material. So we are always wrapping things in asbestos, keeping our images and fantasies at arm’s length because they are so full of love.

I’m cautious about a lot of words.

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it’s also in the system, the society.

I’m the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I’m a victim again. A result.

It’s very hard in our adversarial society to find a third view. Take journalism, where everything is always presented as one person against another: “Now we’re going to hear the opposing view.” There is never a third view.

We can’t change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

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.

In the cosmology that’s behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.

I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I’m in the psyche...