To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
ADAM PHILLIPSLovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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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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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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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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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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People change, but there really are limits.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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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 tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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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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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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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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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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