Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

Ivan Illich Quotes: Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.
         

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.


Ivan Illich
Check all other quotes by Ivan Illich

Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.

Embed:

Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.





Citation

Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:


Styles:

×

MLA Style Citation


"Ivan Illich Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Tue. 30 Apr. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/Culture-makes-pain-tolerable-by-interpreting-it-669991>.





Check out


Other quotes of Ivan Illich


Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.



We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.



School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.



The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.

The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.



Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.



We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.

We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.



The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.



School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.



Schools teach the need to be taught.

Schools teach the need to be taught.



Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.

Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.





Other quotes you may like


Na ca mi-a slabit vederea. Te rogi atata timp sa ti se arate Dumnezeu si cand ai ajuns langa El, nu-L mai vezi.

Na ca mi-a slabit vederea. Te rogi atata timp sa ti se arate Dumnezeu si cand ai ajuns langa El, nu-L mai vezi.



He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.



Wisdom is a sharp chisel to carve out your future.

Wisdom is a sharp chisel to carve out your future.



Feeling - what authentic human fun!

Feeling - what authentic human fun!



in other words, if you didn't count the empty wine bottles and the iced over urine flows, it was the outer space that surrounded us.

in other words, if you didn't count the empty wine bottles and the iced over urine flows, it was the outer space that surrounded us.



Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.

Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.



Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.



The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.

The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.



It is not God's function to create or uncreate the circumstances of your life. God created You, in the image and likeness of God. You have created the rest.

It is not God's function to create or uncreate the circumstances of your life. God created You, in the image and likeness of God. You have created the rest.



The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't.

The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't.




Quote Description


This page presents the quote "Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.". Author of this quote is Ivan Illich. This quote is about tolerable, interpreting, suffering, culture, pain,.