Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy
John Armstrong
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.”
“We need to be free if we are to love.”
“A relationship does not start the day two people meet; it starts in the childhood of each partner. For it is long before they meet that the template of their relationship is established.”
“This is the internal tragedy of love. If love is successful, if our love is returned and develops into a relationship, the person we are with must turn out to be other than we imagined them to be. Love craves closeness, and closeness always brings us face to face with something other than we expected.”
“Compatibility, on this view, is an achievement of love, not a precondition for love.”
“What is given by nature is not necessarily good, what is achieved by artifice is not necessarily worthless.”
“Love can sometimes rise up like a desperate cry from a neglected part of oneself which takes a long view but which is submerged by the presence of strident wants.”
“Imagination need not stand as an obstacle to clear-sighted perception; on the contrary, it can be a prerequisite for recognition of the less obvious aspects of what is really there.”
“When we try to love we are not actually trying to undertake a single endeavor; rather, we are trying to do a whole range of different, and sometimes not very compatible, things simultaneously.”
“It is not suffering as such that makes someone appreciate love, it is only when suffering pierces our vanity—which happens when we do not blame someone else for our pain—that it awakens a deeper respect for love.”
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Book Keywords:
emotion, love, imagination, ego, philosophy, future
