"Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease."

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Source : Philip Rieff, Arnold M. Eisen, Gideon Lewis-Kraus (2008). “The Jew of Culture: Freud, Moses, and Modernity”, p.69, University of Virginia Press

Philip Rieff

#Religion Quotes #Disease Quotes #May Quotes

“You canâ€™t change conditionsâ€”just the way you deal with them,”
“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”
“Comfort is perennially important. Dance clothes are so comfortable and I try to find that in regular clothing as welling.”
“Remove all the walls and curtains so you can get closer and purely love. Have principles but do not use them to exclude or to judge the others. Stay far from idols, specially from those you made from your own principles. Have a powerful faith, but do not play the powerful.”
“When I call on Jesus, all things are possible.”

Source : Song: Call On Jesus
“From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.”
“I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage.”
“What's interesting is, for myself, when I become really attracted to somebody, I find them in my dreams... conversations, nothing more.”

Source : "Alice Englert Talks Witch Bar Mitzvahs and Civil War Re-Enactments on the Set of 'Beautiful Creatures'". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. November 8, 2012.

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