Relationships Quotes

"Social harmony depends on recognizing our fundamental interdependence."

"Relationships deepen when both parties cultivate intellectual growth and moral improvement."

"Deep relationships rest upon honest intellectual exchange and mutual moral support."

"Society between human beings is habitual when it becomes the permanent condition of their life together."

"In relationships, honesty is more valuable than harmony."

"In relationships, vulnerability is strength, not weakness."

"You must have enemies whom you do not despise."

"What is life, if not shared with another?"

"Marriage is a battle between two people who are constantly trying to assert their importance."

"Marriage is the greatest human good, the foundation of all morality."

"The essence of man is no abstraction inherent in each single individual; it is the totality of social relations."

"A person is nothing without the society that shapes them."

"The misanthropist is he who has spent all his money on humanity."

"The relationship between two minds is the truest democracy ever conceived."

"In relationships, vulnerability is not weakness but the foundation of trust."

"Suffering shared is suffering diminished, happiness shared is happiness multiplied."

"The pursuit of happiness must be tempered by consideration for others' happiness."

"Love is all you need, but marriage requires something more practical."

"Marriage is a slow process of getting used to another person."

"In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man."

"If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful woman left you, if you have never been kicked out in the middle of the night into the pouring rain without a taxicab in sight, you simply do not understand the modern condition."

"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."

"Women who are too intelligent, sexually active, angry, or belligerent are undesirable. When women feel safe and protected, it brings out their softer side."

"Every relation of mastery involves a relation of dependence."

"Man is a social animal; he is by nature a citizen of the state."

"Our obligations to one another are rooted in our shared nature as thinking beings."

"To understand another mind is to extend the boundaries of one's own consciousness."

"The sweetest morsel of life is the conviction that others believe in you."

"Self-consciousness exists in and for itself when, and by the fact that, so exists another self-consciousness."

"The true self is realized only through recognition by another."