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James Hillman quotes about thinking

American Psychologist April 12, 1926 – October 27, 2011

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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. James Hillman
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here. James Hillman
I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person. James Hillman
My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned feelings that prevail in psychology and therefore also in the way we think and feel about our being. Of these conditions none are more tyrannical than the convictions that clamp the mind and heart into positivistic science (geneticism and computerism), economics (bottom-line capitalism), and single-minded faith (fundamentalism). 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 quote: "I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god,..."
I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics. James Hillman

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