To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
ADAM PHILLIPSThere is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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We are children for a very long time.
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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
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The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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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 ,
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When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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You write to find out what you believe.
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I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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