We can never prevent war or speak sensibly of peace and disarmament unless we enter this love of war. Unless we move our imaginations into the martial state of the soul, we cannot comprehend its pull. . . . We are not going to war "in the name of peace" as deceitful rhetoric so often declares, but rather for war's own sake: to understand the madness of its love.
Our civilian disdain and pacifist horror — all the legitimate and deep-felt aversion to everything to do with the military and the warrior — must be set aside. This because the first principle of psychological method holds that any phenomenon to be understood must be sympathetically imagined. No syndrome can be truly dislodged from its cursed condition unless we first move imagination into its heart.
— James Hillman, A Terrible Love of War