Friendship Quotes

The chosen family. Quotes about the people who show up, stick around, and make life better.

18559 quotes

"Friendship requires the willingness to be transformed by the other."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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"Friendship requires vulnerability."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Friendship requires genuine connection and mutual respect."
Noam Chomsky
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"Communities of scientists share not facts, but frameworks for seeing facts."
Thomas Kuhn
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"Friendship requires the courage to be truly known."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Tolerance and friendship with those who hold different views are not signs of weakness but of strength."
Karl Popper
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"True friends are those who will tell you what you don't want to hear but need to hear."
Karl Popper
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"Friendship is a voluntary association based on mutual benefit."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Friendship without honesty is merely acquaintance."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Every organism requires an environment of friends, to use a large definition of friends."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Community is built through mutual aid, not competition."
Noam Chomsky
"The strongest bonds form between those who understand mutual strangeness."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"Be your own friend; you will be your greatest enemy."
Jérémie Bentham
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"Good friends, for the sake of experiment, we should accept one another's point of view."
Karl Popper
"Friendship is tested not in abundance but in adversity."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"True friendship is a treasure more valuable than gold."
Antonio Genovesi
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"A true friend stands by you in darkness and light."
Antonio Genovesi
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"True friendship is a plant of slow growth."
Johann Tetens
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"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
Johann Tetens
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"Friendship requires honest recognition of common interests."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"True friendship is forged not in times of plenty, but in times of hardship."
Antonio Genovesi
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"The strength of a community lies in the strength of its bonds."
Antonio Genovesi
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"The deepest friendships are forged in moments of vulnerability and honest truth-telling."
Johann Tetens
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"Friendship is the luxury of those willing to be fully known and still accepted."
Johann Tetens
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"Friendship exists because we share the same mechanical vulnerabilities."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"The proper office of a friend is not to gratify my desires, but to cherish and improve me."
Jérémie Bentham
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"The foundation of friendship is trust; of love, a deeper trust still."
Jérémie Bentham
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"The bonds of friendship require cultivation through time, effort, and genuine care."
Antonio Genovesi
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"A friendship based on mutual advantage is no friendship at all but a commercial arrangement."
Antonio Genovesi
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"The greatest friendship is between those who share honest understanding."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie