We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
ADAM PHILLIPSExcesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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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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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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It 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.
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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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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 can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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You write to find out what you believe.
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