black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

Related Topics

Dictate Everything Influence Nothing Past

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Ourselves Spot Tyrannized Unacceptable Whatever
When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe
ADAM PHILLIPS

Comprehend Define Describe Ourselves Rather Recognize
Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Aliveness Bear Dealing Everybody Everything Need
One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Change Discover Life Psychoanalytic Thing Treatment Yourself
Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Down Getting Minimum Monogamy Version Way
To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Faith Keep Recognition Recognizable Stay
The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Dictate Everything Influence Nothing Past
Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Importance Preoccupation Pressing Recognition Recognize Sanity Word
The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
ADAM PHILLIPS

Child Children Independent People Self Try
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Blind Spots Experience Human Limit Recognition
There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
ADAM PHILLIPS

Happy Marriage More Nothing Scandalous
People change, but there really are limits.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Change Limit People Reality
Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Adult Most Nostalgia Understood Violent Wanting
Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
ADAM PHILLIPS

Appetite Cure Excesses Feeling Hopelessness Self
The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
ADAM PHILLIPS

Access Child Children Finding might Object Obstacle
The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Art Big Secret True Want

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes