"Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living."

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Source : Philip Rieff (1979). “Freud: The Mind of the Moralist”, p.12, University of Chicago Press

Philip Rieff

#Reason Quotes #Cruelty Quotes

“I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could.”
“The whole earth, then, belongs to Jesus. It belongs to him by right of creation, by right of redemption and by right of future inheritance - as Paul affirms in the magnificent cosmic declaration of Colossians 1:15-20. So wherever we go in his name, we are walking on his property. There is not an inch of the planet that does not belong to Christ. Mission then is an authorized activity carried out by tenants on the instructions of the owner of the property.”

Source : Christopher J. H. Wright (2013). “The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative”, p.403, InterVarsity Press
“I don't have the courage not to write all the time.”
“Ultimately I want my metal in a bar and not an art gallery.”
“In the current FIDE World Championship, on the knock-out system, weaker players have good chances. Those, who in a long match would practically have no chance, here may creep through.”
“I'm more open to give things a go, but what I'm not good at yet is holding back. If something is daft or rubbish, I just go, I can't be doing it.”
“It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.”
“My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.”

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