James Hillman Quotes About Economics

Quotes about: Economics

• I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

  James Hillman

  Thinking, Miserable, Economics

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. March 1998.

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

  James Hillman

  Race, Class, Prejudice

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. March 1998.

• 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

  War, Heart, Thinking

• In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident - a result - and therefore a victim... if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes.... or, if you look at it from the sociological perspective, I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result .

  James Hillman

  Past, Race, Class

  "From Little Acorns: A Radical New Psychology". Interview with Scott London, weww.thesunmagazine.org. March 1998.

• The Greek idea of fate is moira, which means "portion." Fate rules a portion of your life. But there is more to life than just fate. There is also genetics, environment, economics, and so on. So it's not all written in the book before you get here, such that you don't have to do anything. That's fatalism.

  James Hillman

  Book, Mean, Fate

  Source: scottlondon.com

• Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.

  James Hillman

  Class, Environment, Biology

  Source: scottlondon.com

• Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

  James Hillman

  Leisure, Slave, Economics

  Source: scottlondon.com

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