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Philip Rieff on Mind

1922–2006 United States

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Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.

Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (1959)

Surely the romantic and now permanent revolution against the ancient regime of reason is against a regime largely invented by the revolutionaries themselves.

Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (1959)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Philip Rieff (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.