There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
ADAM PHILLIPSTo keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
-
-
We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults ,
ADAM PHILLIPS -
Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
ADAM PHILLIPS -
You write to find out what you believe.
ADAM PHILLIPS -
To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
ADAM PHILLIPS -
The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
ADAM PHILLIPS -
we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
ADAM PHILLIPS -
Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
ADAM PHILLIPS -
There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
ADAM PHILLIPS -
There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
ADAM PHILLIPS -
The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
ADAM PHILLIPS -
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
ADAM PHILLIPS -
The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
ADAM PHILLIPS -
To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
ADAM PHILLIPS -
I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
ADAM PHILLIPS -
The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
ADAM PHILLIPS