“Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.”
Philip Rieff (1922–2006) American sociologist
Source: The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud
“As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.”
— Izaak Walton, book The Compleat Angler
Epistle to the Reader.
The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)
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