Self-confidence is inseparable from submission to the creedal order, and through that order, to the supreme authority expressed in that order. ... Deep individualism cannot exist except in relation to the highest authority. No inner discipline can operate without a… — Philip Rieff Copy Share Image
Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of… — Philip Rieff Copy Share Image
Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased. — Philip Rieff Copy Share Image
Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living. — Philip Rieff Copy Share Image
Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease. — Philip Rieff Copy Share Image
Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a… — Philip Rieff Copy Share Image
Self-confidence is inseparable from submission to the creedal order, and through that order, to the supreme authority expressed in that order. ... Deep individualism… — Philip Rieff Copy Share Image
Beyond the wounds of the child and the scars of the man, there is something in the heart of love itself that makes love… — Philip Rieff Copy Share Image
