Quote by Philip Rieff
"We have become so enlightened that we have lost the capacity for awe"
"We have become so enlightened that we have lost the capacity for awe"
"The pleasure of the text is not the pleasure of the person who consumes culture."
"Culture is the effort to hold back the aggressive and pathological forces of human nature."
"Every culture is a religion, whether or not its members know it."
"The highest achievements of consciousness are in withdrawal from the world."