James Hillman Quotes

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

Individuality is that which you bring into the world.

Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict.

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

We all have our own little thing, I think.

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

Personality traits form at an early age and are fixed by early adulthood. Many important things about you change over the course of your lifetime, but your personality isn't one of them.

It's the details that make people distinct, that make them individuals.

I just feel like people are who they are.

Personality for me is the strongest statement.

The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly different and individually characteristic.

Character + Chance = Success

Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.

I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.

Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing the forces which have acted upon him. However deeply we should like to penetrate, however close we seem to be drawing to truth, one unknown quantity eludes us: man's primordial energy, his original self, that personality which was given him with the gift of life itself. On it rests man's true freedom; it alone determines his real character.

Who you are as a character is kind of the foundation of everything.

Freedom and diversity guard each other, and if a country could form the whole of one's character, Napoleon III and Victor Hugo would have been the same person... if national identity means anything, it means something that comes with you wherever you go, and stays with you no matter how long you stay away.

Every girl has her own character, every boy his own mind.

Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.

Children come into the world with a lot of personality already imbedded in them.

There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.

It’s the little things that make us who we are in the bigger world.

It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.