Philip Rieff Quote

The ascetic was limited, and often broken, in his organizational usefulness by a naïve dedication to principle.


The Triumph of the Therapeutic (1966)


The ascetic was limited, and often broken, in his organizational usefulness by a naïve dedication to principle.

The ascetic was limited, and often broken, in his organizational usefulness by a naïve dedication to principle.

The ascetic was limited, and often broken, in his organizational usefulness by a naïve dedication to principle.

The ascetic was limited, and often broken, in his organizational usefulness by a naïve dedication to principle.