Philip Rieff famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 exist except in relation to the highest authority. No inner discipline can operate without a charismatic institution, nor can such an institution survive without that supreme authority from a relation to whom self-confidence derives. Without an authority deeply installed, there is no foundation for individuality. Self-confidence thus expresses submission to supreme authority.
-- Philip Rieff

#Self Confidence #Order #Discipline
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.
-- Philip Rieff

#Love #Children #Heart
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.
-- Philip Rieff

#Past #Men #Weight
Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.
-- Philip Rieff

#Religion #Disease #May
Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.
-- Philip Rieff

#Reason #Cruelty
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 market economy, he understands morality as that which is conducive to increased activity. The important thing is to keep going.
-- Philip Rieff

#Men #Important #May
Scholarship is polite argument.
-- Philip Rieff

#Argument #Scholarship #Polite
Intellection must address the matter of its feeling.
-- Philip Rieff

#Feelings #Matter #Addresses
Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.
-- Philip Rieff

#Religious #Men #Psychological

I had a fantastic mother who taught me self-confidence.
She laughed out loud, a warm, knowing laughter that made me once again wonder about the secret ingredient in these womenâ€™s lives. Whatever it was, I was clearly missing it. It was so much more than just self-confidence; it seemed to be the ability to love oneself, enthusiastically and unsparingly, body and soul, naturally followed by the assumption that every man on the planet is dying to get in on the act.
That was interesting." "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders." "He was furtive." "Sneaky, even." "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet." Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)
In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad but true that physics has irretrievably fallen apart from a cohesive to a fragmented discipline. ... It was not that long ago that people were complaining about two cultures. If we only had it that good. today.
My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.
Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'
Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.
I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

Philip Rieff famous quotes

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