Philip Rieff Quotes
Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.
Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.
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 of the burden.
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.
