Philip Rieff Quotes

#1. Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.

Philip Rieff

#2. It seems to me Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich with grass and color, and the mountains are the kind I would create if mountains were ever put on my agenda.

John Steinbeck

#3. Scholarship is polite argument.

Philip Rieff

#4. 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

#5. Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall
die.

William Shakespeare

#6. 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

#7. She was not unattractive until she focused her eyes on a human being, when their unblinking coldness gave the effect of the stare of an adder.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#8. There's one thing that life does where ever it goes- it begats life.

Leonard Ravenhill

#9. Intellection must address the matter of its feeling.

Philip Rieff

#10. It was one of my friend's most obvious weaknesses that he was impatient with less alert intelligences than his own.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#11. 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

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

Philip Rieff

#13. There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them.

Betty Grable

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

Philip Rieff

#15. I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.

Jana Novotna