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  • 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.

    Men   Important   May  
    Philip Rieff (1987). “The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud”, p.41, University of Chicago Press
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Past   Men   Weight  
    Philip Rieff (1979). “Freud: The Mind of the Moralist”, p.11, University of Chicago Press
  • Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.

    Religion   May   Disease  
    Philip Rieff, Arnold M. Eisen, Gideon Lewis-Kraus (2008). “The Jew of Culture: Freud, Moses, and Modernity”, p.69, University of Virginia Press
  • Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.

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

    Love   Children   Heart  
    Philip Rieff (1979). “Freud: The Mind of the Moralist”, p.164, University of Chicago Press
  • Scholarship is polite argument.

  • Intellection must address the matter of its feeling.

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

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