Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
ADAM PHILLIPSIt is as if to say: if these are not valued – if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing – are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad.
ADAM PHILLIPSThe big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
ADAM PHILLIPSWe are children for a very long time.
ADAM PHILLIPSMonogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
ADAM PHILLIPSI am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
ADAM PHILLIPSThe past influences everything and dictates nothing.
ADAM PHILLIPSWanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
ADAM PHILLIPSwe are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
ADAM PHILLIPSTo our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need.
ADAM PHILLIPSLovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
ADAM PHILLIPSThere is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
ADAM PHILLIPSThe child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
ADAM PHILLIPSSanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
ADAM PHILLIPSThe child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
ADAM PHILLIPSThere is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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