We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
ADAM PHILLIPSTo grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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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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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 terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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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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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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We are children for a very long time.
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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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 big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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