Philip Rieff Quotes
- Beyond the wounds of the child and the scars of the man, there is something in the heart of love itself that makes love pathetic.
- Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting…
- Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.
- Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.
- Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the…
- Scholarship is polite argument.
- Intellection must address the matter of its feeling.
- Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.
- 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…