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

Philip Rieff
Reason, Cruelty
Philip Rieff (1979). “Freud: The Mind of the Moralist”, p.12, University of Chicago Press
Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.