Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
ADAM PHILLIPSBelieving in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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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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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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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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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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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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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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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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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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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
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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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