Philip Rieff

"Money measures what has no intrinsic value."

"Health is the alignment of body, mind, and culture."

"Adventure is the flight from oneself disguised as discovery."

"Imagination is the faculty of forbidden thought."

"Technology extends the reach of our delusions."

"History is the process by which the dead teach the living."

"Philosophy is the art of asking questions that have no answers."

"Literature is the preservation of what culture would forget."

"Politics is the compromise between principle and necessity."

"War is the failure of culture to contain human aggression."

"Motivation without restraint is destruction."

"Inspiration is the whisper of something greater than ourselves."

"Relationships are mirrors in which we see ourselves truly."

"Solitude is the place where the self is revealed."

"Culture is the guardian of the soul against its own worst impulses"

"The therapeutic has become our new religion, replacing transcendence with adjustment"

"Modern man seeks to be cured rather than saved, adjusted rather than transformed"

"We live in an age of the moral sublime replaced by the psychological comfortable"

"The elimination of guilt is the elimination of conscience itself"

"Character is formed through resistance, not through acceptance of all desires"

"The sacred cannot survive where everything is permitted in the name of freedom"

"Authority without tradition becomes mere coercion; tradition without authority becomes mere nostalgia"

"Art once elevated us toward the transcendent; now it merely entertains"

"We mistake the democratization of culture for its improvement"

"The death of God did not bring us freedom but rather a different kind of servitude"

"Meaning requires constraint; unlimited choice produces only paralysis"

"The therapeutic impulse destroys what it claims to heal"

"Culture preserves what the individual cannot preserve alone"

"Man cannot live by criticism alone; he needs affirmation of something sacred"

"The modern rejection of authority has left us defenseless against new tyrannies"