James Hillman Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and who habitually follow the house rules may not have met other long-term residents who stay behind closed doors, or who only appear at night. An adequate theory of character must make room for character actors, for the stuntmen and animal handlers, for all the figures who play bit parts and produce unexpected acts. They often make the show fateful, or tragic, or farcically absurd.

  James Hillman

  Character, Night, Animal

• Rather let us imagine the anima mundi as that particular soul-spark, that seminal image, which offers itself through each thing in its visible form. Then anima mundi indicates the animated possibilities presented by each new event as it is, its sensuous presentation as a face bespeaking its interior image - in short, its availability to imagination, its presence as psychic reality. Not only animals and plants ensouled as in the Romantic vision, but soul is given with each thing, God-given things of nature and man-made things of the street.

  James Hillman

  Animal, Reality, Men

  James Hillman (2006). “City and Soul: Uniform Edition”, Spring Publications

• Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche.

  James Hillman

  Humorous, Mean, Animal

  James Hillman, Thomas Moore (2013). “The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire”, p.295, Routledge

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