Michał Herer > Quotes

“Friendship was suppressed by the bourgeois.”
― Michal Herer, In Praise of Friendship

“From the philosophical standpoint, one of the most interesting characteristics of friendship is that while it is not synonymous with love, fraternity, or political alliance, none of these (or many other) relationships occur without a certain measure of friendship: this is the ingredient that makes other forms of relationships more productive and less limiting, less self-centered, and less toxic.”
― Michal Herer, In Praise of Friendship

“A friend is supposed to be himself; friendship is about letting him be, about nurturing his autonomy. It could be said, therefore, that friendship blossoms wherever neurotic anxiety and its attendant compulsion wane. Furthermore, friendship differs from love inasmuch as romantic relations are marked by compulsion, just as the logic of excess differs from the logic of lack. If this is the nature of true (deneuroticized) love, then we would have to conclude that real love becomes true love insofar as it comes to resemble friendship.”
― Michal Herer, In Praise of Friendship