Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
ADAM PHILLIPSTo keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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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 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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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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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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To our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need.
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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 children for a very long time.
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