Philip Rieff

"Money is frozen labor, and labor is frozen time."

"Health of the soul requires health of the culture."

"Adventure without purpose is merely distraction."

"Imagination is the faculty that perceives what culture forbids."

"Literature preserves what history erases."

"Politics is the art of making the intolerable tolerable."

"War reveals the truth about civilization."

"Motivation without conscience is ambition."

"Inspiration comes from commitment to tradition."

"Relationships are the stage upon which character is revealed."

"Change is only valuable if it preserves what is essential."

"Perseverance without wisdom is mere stubbornness."

"Gratitude is the acknowledgment of our dependence on others."

"Creativity requires constraint, not freedom."

"Justice without mercy is tyranny."

"Beauty is the signature of order in chaos."

"Nature teaches what culture must contradict."

"Peace is the fruit of accepted authority."

"Science attempts to describe what culture prescribes."

"Work is the price of belonging to a community."

"Dreams are the mind's way of rehearsing what culture forbids."

"Humor is the permitted expression of the forbidden."

"Life is the struggle between self-interest and social obligation."

"The examined life may not be worth living if it destroys faith."

"Truth is what a culture needs to believe to survive."

"Wisdom is knowing which questions not to ask."

"Love is the rebellion of the individual against the collective."

"Happiness is the state of being fully reconciled to one's place."

"Success is measured by what one has given up to achieve it."

"Friendship begins where judgment ends."