Relationships Quotes

"The person who is not capable of making a promise is not capable of love."

"Community is born when individuals surrender their isolated ego-consciousness."

"The I is constituted through relation to the Thou."

"Community is built, not given."

"The other is not a problem to be solved but a question without answer."

"The listener becomes the listened-to in true dialogue."

"The other's smile contains an abyss we cannot cross."

"Desire is the space where identity becomes questionable."

"The other's gaze constitutes me even as I see them."

"All real living is meeting."

"Relation is mutual. My You affects me, as I affect it."

"All actual life is encounter."

"To be a person is to be in relation to another person."

"The I is not real except in relation."

"Between persons something happens that is no less real than physical events."

"The confirmation we seek from others is really self-confirmation through relation."

"In genuine dialogue, both parties are transformed."

"In confirming another person, we confirm ourselves."

"The depth of relation is measured by the degree of presence."

"Intimacy requires a dissolution of the self into the other."

"The strongest relationships are built on acknowledged transgression."

"In love, we surrender the sovereignty we spent our lives constructing."

"Relationships are the foundation of all social life."

"Relationships are the arena where we learn to be fully human."

"Solidarity is the only adequate response to shared oppression."

"The face of the other speaks to me without intermediary; it is language itself."

"Proximity to the other is not spatial but ethical."

"To be myself is to be chosen by the other's vulnerability."

"Proximity is the ethical relation that precedes all spatial contiguity."

"The feminine is the dimension of alterity that escapes masculine totality."