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James Hillman

I’m in favor of destruction, aggression, hating things. Not bearing things anymore. We think the breakdown comes because our life is in bad shape. But maybe the ideas cause the disorder. Something tries to break through and causes the disorder.

– James Hillman

James Hillman

My suggestion is that there’s no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There’s no way out. They’re a misery, all of them.

– James Hillman

James Hillman

We need to have an educational system that’s able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn’t have to fit into a certain mold of learning.

– James Hillman

James Hillman

Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction that the country is going to be better than ever.

– James Hillman

James Hillman

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

– James Hillman

James Hillman

I can’t read all the books I want to read, I can’t watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it’s a necessity I’m obliged to fulfill.

– James Hillman

James Hillman

The elder who is eliminating what time has done to the face, what life has done to the face, is making a statement for others to see: This is the way to be a good old person – it is to defeat this body that is doing things to you. Because you haven’t changed. Your body’s changing.

– James Hillman

James Hillman

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don’t want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

– James Hillman

James Hillman

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

– James Hillman

James Hillman

We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.

– James Hillman

James Hillman

We’re an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.

– James Hillman

James Hillman

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

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