Eros Quotes
58 quotes by 38 authors
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Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and…
— Sigmund Freud
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The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.
— Minna Antrim
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It is urgent to show ourselves at the side of our compañeros in San Marcos Avilés. The threat is immediate. The Committees of the True…
— Gustavo Esteva
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All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.
— Emile M. Cioran
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No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity;––for thoughts, there is always time; life…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.
— Germaine Greer
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Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of…
— Bell Hooks
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Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the…
— C.S. Lewis
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Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.
— Murray Bookchin
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Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.
— Theodor Adorno
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God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that…
— David Bentley Hart
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If a seperate personal Paradise exists for each of us mine must irreparably be planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars,…
— Odysseas Elytis
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Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and higher, elating the…
— Elif Safak
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As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it…
— Anne Carson
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In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the…
— Forrest Gander
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For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where meanings…
— Michael Leunig
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There is no art without Eros.
— Max Frisch
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There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.
— Meghan O'Rourke
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Eros is not tranquil-it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of…
— François Lelord
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