Friendship Quotes

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

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"Friendship survives disagreement but rarely survives indifference."
Fine, Arthur
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"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, what! You too?"
Lewis, David
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"Friendship is the highest form of love."
Geach, Peter
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"Friends are chosen family."
Geach, Peter
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"True friendship survives disagreement because it transcends agreement."
Fine, Arthur
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"We rely on others to carry much of our conceptual baggage."
Burge, Tyler
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"Friendship survives distance but dies from indifference."
Lewis, David
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"Friends are the family you choose, which makes them both privilege and responsibility."
Lewis, David
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"The speaker and hearer must share common ground for true understanding."
Grice, Paul
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"Friendship is the thread that weaves the tapestry of our lives."
Fine, Arthur
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"Friendship is the bridge between who we are and who we wish to become."
Fine, Arthur
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"In friendship, we find the person we were always meant to become."
Fine, Kit
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"Friendship is the one relationship we choose, making it perhaps the most sacred."
Lewis, David
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"A true friend sees your flaws and loves you despite—or because of—them."
Lewis, David
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"The examined life requires friends willing to challenge us."
Fine, Arthur
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"Friendship is the evidence that love is not merely romantic."
Lewis, David
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"We are all bound together by the principle of cooperation in conversation."
Grice, Paul
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"To be cooperative is to acknowledge the mutual interests we share."
Grice, Paul
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"Language binds us together in webs of shared understanding and common purpose."
Grice, Paul
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"The nature of friendship rests not merely on sentiment but on shared activities and mutual respect."
Ryle, Gilbert
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"Loyalty is a disposition to support those to whom one has committed oneself, but not unconditionally."
Ryle, Gilbert
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"Loyalty is not blind obedience but intelligent commitment to shared purposes."
Ryle, Gilbert
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"Friendship is the most precious treasure."
Wigner, Eugene
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"Collaboration amplifies the power of individual intelligence in scientific pursuits."
Wigner, Eugene
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"The depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."
Bohr, Niels
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"Friendship between mathematicians is founded on mutual respect for truth."
Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
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"The foundation of mathematics is logic, the foundation of life is friendship."
Hilbert, David
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"True friendship involves mutual respect for each other's intellectual journey."
Weyl, Hermann
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"The depths of friendship to which you can go with another person is the measure of how much you unblock yourself and allow the real you to be known."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"Every organism requires an environment of friends, that is to say, of allies."
Whitehead, Alfred North