To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
ADAM PHILLIPSWe are children for a very long time.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
-
-
To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
ADAM PHILLIPS -
Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
ADAM PHILLIPS -
There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
ADAM PHILLIPS -
The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
ADAM PHILLIPS -
The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
ADAM PHILLIPS -
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
ADAM PHILLIPS -
There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
ADAM PHILLIPS -
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
ADAM PHILLIPS -
When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe
ADAM PHILLIPS -
We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
ADAM PHILLIPS -
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
ADAM PHILLIPS -
Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
ADAM PHILLIPS -
The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
ADAM PHILLIPS -
To our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need.
ADAM PHILLIPS -
Transgression is a quest for solitude
ADAM PHILLIPS