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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-phillips/the-whole-notion-of-sanity-may-be-an-attempt-to-medicalize-morality/)

[Adam Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-phillips/)

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## More by Adam Phillips

> [“Writers as diverse as Wordsworth and Freud, as Blake and Dickens have all hypothesized that the turbulence and intensity we feel as young children…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-phillips/writers-as-diverse-as-wordsworth-and-freud-as-blake-and-dickens-have/)

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> [Transgression is a quest for solitude](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-phillips/transgression-is-a-quest-for-solitude/)

[Adam Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-phillips/)

> [The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-phillips/the-vocabulary-of-one-s-self-criticism-is-so-impoverished-and-clich-d/)

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> [The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-phillips/the-big-secret-about-art-is-that-no-one-wants-it-to-be-true/)

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> [“Indeed psychoanalysis makes sense only as part of the larger cultural conversation in the arts that became known as modernism. Vienna, where Freud lived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-phillips/indeed-psychoanalysis-makes-sense-only-as-part-of-the-larger-cultural/)

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> [“If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, safety to excitement (sometimes good things to prefer but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-phillips/if-you-want-to-be-with-somebody-who-gets-you-you-prefer-collusion-to/)

[Adam Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-phillips/)

> [“Anger, then, is only for the engaged; for those with projects that matter.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-phillips/anger-then-is-only-for-the-engaged-for-those-with-projects-that-matter/)

[Adam Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-phillips/)

> [“Finding hate-objects may be every bit as essential as finding love-objects, but if one can tolerate some of one's badness -- meaning recognize it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-phillips/finding-hate-objects-may-be-every-bit-as-essential-as-finding-love/)

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> [Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-phillips/sanity-as-the-project-of-keeping-ourselves-recognizably-human/)

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> [“So there is something perhaps more difficult to conceive of, sometimes born of resignation and sometimes not- a life in which not getting it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-phillips/so-there-is-something-perhaps-more-difficult-to-conceive-of-sometimes/)

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> [ The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .. Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..The child \[uses\] ‘doubt about… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-phillips/the-child-will-try-to-make-himself-independent-of-other-people/)

[Adam Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-phillips/)

> [To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-phillips/to-grow-up-is-to-discover-what-one-is-unequal-to/)

[Adam Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-phillips/)

> [There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-phillips/there-is-nothing-more-terrorizing-than-the-possibility-that-nothing/)

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> [There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-phillips/there-is-always-a-belief-that-by-destroying-the-thing-that-we-love-we/)

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> [Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-phillips/everybody-is-dealing-with-how-much-of-their-own-aliveness-they-can/)

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