All Quotes By Tag: Friendship

“God is the reason I’m surviving, but he’s sure used you in my life wonderfully. I love you.”

“If you wish to befriend someone, look for a person who loves first God then themselves. If they love God, they will be able to love their neighbor, too.”

“A foe to God was never true friend to man”

“ثمة عباراتٌ لا معنى لها تملك مثل ذلك السحر، تُظهِر قدرا من الرهافة، بحيث تقول على الفور، “هذا الشخص، إنه يخصّني”، ليس بمعنى الملكية، بل أنه من نوعي، وأتمنى أن أستطيع أن أكون من نوعه. من تلك النقطة، تولد الصداقة، يمكن للصداقة أن تولد. هناك، إذن، مسألة إدراك[حسّي]، إدراك شيءٍ يناسبك أو يعلّمك شيئا، يُفتِّحُك، يكشف شيئا لك”

“I have no duty to be anyone’s Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

“No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”

“Friendships will never be darkened by the setting sun.”

“It must not be forgotten that reason too needs to be sustained in all its searching by trusting dialogue and sincere friendship. A climate of suspicion and distrust, which can beset speculative research, ignores the teaching of the ancient philosophers who proposed friendship as one of the most appropriate contexts for sound philosophical enquiry.”

“But you can’t stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.”

“Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. “Lord Varys,” he said from the saddle, “sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King’s Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy.” “How odd. I think quite the same of you.”

“Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you?Waxilliam: Why?Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers while people bring you food and maids rub your toes and stuff.Waxilliam: And?Wayne: And I just couldn’t leave you to a fate like that…I’m too good a friend to let a mate of mine die in such a terrible situation.Waxilliam: Comfortable?Wayne: No. Boring.”

“Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off.”Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. “You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.”

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival.”

“The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers…of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good…They were absolutely one soul as they looked at the problem. This, according to Plato, is the only real friendship, the only real common good. It is here that the contact people so desperately seek is to be found…This is the meaning of the riddle of the improbable philosopher-kings. They have a true community that is exemplary for all other communities.”

“Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.”