The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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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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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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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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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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 past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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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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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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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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There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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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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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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