Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
ADAM PHILLIPSThe whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality – to speak of the good in the language of health: to make us more accurate, more scientific in our wanting – but by the same token it becomes a form of moral blackmail.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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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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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality – to speak of the good in the language of health: to make us more accurate, more scientific in our wanting – but by the same token it becomes a form of moral blackmail.
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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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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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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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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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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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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People change, but there really are limits.
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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You write to find out what you believe.
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