Philosophy Quotes

"The erosion of inhibition is the erosion of meaning."

"We have become priests of the therapeutic gospel."

"Modern consciousness is the consciousness of unlimited possibility."

"Every culture is a defense against the chaos of desire."

"We are trying to build culture on the ruins of religion."

"The self is not authentic but constructed through commitment."

"Every tradition is a refusal of something."

"Culture is the crystallization of human refusal."

"We have replaced confession with analysis."

"The modern person seeks meaning without accepting limitation."

"All culture is the sublimation of appetite."

"We have made the forbidden into the merely unconventional."

"Commitment is the price of both meaning and suffering."

"The modernist dream is the dream of culture without content."

"Every tradition begins with a refusal to do otherwise."

"The therapeutic mentality teaches us to love ourselves to death."

"All genuine culture is an act of renunciation."

"The modern self is a perpetual adolescent."

"We are the first civilization to seek survival without purpose."

"Culture requires the willingness to deny the self."

"Every prohibition is an investment in meaning."

"Modernism is the systematic destruction of every inherited form."

"We celebrate the dismantling of the very structures that enabled our thought."

"The self without tradition is a self without substance."

"Culture dies when negation becomes total."

"We are learning to be free in ways that destroy freedom."

"Every culture is built on renunciation and memory."

"The therapeutic age is the age of permanent adolescence."

"The tradition-directed person is at home in the modern world."

"Modern man is trapped between tradition and endless possibility."