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> [Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-rieff/reason-cannot-save-us-nothing-can-but-reason-can-mitigate-the-cruelty/)

[Philip Rieff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-rieff/)

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## More by Philip Rieff

> [Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-rieff/psychological-man-may-be-going-nowhere-but-he-aims-to-achieve-a/)

[Philip Rieff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-rieff/)

> [Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-rieff/religious-man-was-born-to-be-saved-psychological-man-is-born-to-be/)

[Philip Rieff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-rieff/)

> [Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-rieff/reason-cannot-save-us-nothing-can-but-reason-can-mitigate-the-cruelty/)

[Philip Rieff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-rieff/)

> [Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-rieff/religion-may-have-been-the-original-cure-freud-reminds-us-that-it-was/)

[Philip Rieff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-rieff/)

> [Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-rieff/man-is-tied-to-the-weight-of-his-own-past-and-even-by-a-great/)

[Philip Rieff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-rieff/)

> [Intellection must address the matter of its feeling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-rieff/intellection-must-address-the-matter-of-its-feeling/)

[Philip Rieff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-rieff/)

> [Self-confidence is inseparable from submission to the creedal order, and through that order, to the supreme authority expressed in that order. ... Deep individualism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-rieff/self-confidence-is-inseparable-from-submission-to-the-creedal-order/)

[Philip Rieff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-rieff/)

> [Beyond the wounds of the child and the scars of the man, there is something in the heart of love itself that makes love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-rieff/beyond-the-wounds-of-the-child-and-the-scars-of-the-man-there-is/)

[Philip Rieff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-rieff/)

> [Scholarship is polite argument.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-rieff/scholarship-is-polite-argument/)

[Philip Rieff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-rieff/)

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