Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips quotes about
brothers global leaders nations raise sisters together united voices
United Nations is an organization of global neighbors. I really wanted to be here to raise our voices together to our leaders to do more for our brothers and sisters who are poor.
blind-spots limits recognition
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable. Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition. When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe- we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see. We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
lovers wonder analysts
Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
happy-marriage possibility scandalous
There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
assessment problem being-true
I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?