Fatalism accounts for life as a whole... Fatalism comforts, for it raises no questions. There’s no need to examine just how events fit in.
― James Hillman, The Souls Code: In Search of Character and Calling
I’m the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I’m a victim again. A result.
― James Hillman
To be sane, we must recognize our beliefs as fictions.
― James Hillman, Healing Fiction
Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.
― James Hillman
To the question, Why am I old? the usual answer is, Because I am becoming dead. But the facts show that I reveal more character as I age, not more death.
― James Hillman, The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life
Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.
― James Hillman
Our dreams recover what the world forgets.
― James Hillman, Animal Presences
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