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All Quotes Collection
"Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity."
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"Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct."
33
"Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself."
41
"Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship."
37
"In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names."
31
"Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men."
35
"Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love."
40
"The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God."
43
"The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind."
33
"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."
37
"The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea."
40
"Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians."
39
"One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian."
26
"Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth."
37
"The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction."
42
"Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely."
33
"We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also."
39
"When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love."
39
"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think."
32
"If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess."
43
"Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange."
29
"There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter."
27
"Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless."
83
"One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union."
35
"Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality."
33
"Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men."
33
"It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure."
39
"Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable."
38
"Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell."
32
"It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history."
28
"In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world."
26
"Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday."
50
"Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means."
57
"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."
22
"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people."
58
"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."
18
"Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense."
45
"The task of art today is to bring chaos into order."
57
"No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit."
57
"Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men."
48
"Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category."
47
"Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength."
20
"Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar."
17
"Life has become the ideology of its own absence."
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