Eros Quotes

58 quotes by 38 authors

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
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
It is urgent to show ourselves at the side of our compaÃ±eros in San Marcos AvilÃ©s. The threat is immediate. The Committees of the True… — Gustavo Esteva
All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute. — Emile M. Cioran
No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity;â€“â€“for thoughts, there is always time; life… — Emile M. Cioran
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
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
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
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
Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution. — Murray Bookchin
Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy. — Theodor Adorno
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
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
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
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
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
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
There is no art without Eros. — Max Frisch
There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros. — Meghan O'Rourke
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… — FranÃ§ois Lelord

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