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Top 10 Denis de Rougemont Quotes (2024 Update)

Denis de Rougemont Quote: “Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take their part and continue to resist the people who profit by them, who slaughter them and who torture them.”

1. “Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take their part and continue to resist the people who profit by them, who slaughter them and who torture them.”

— Denis de Rougemont

Denis de Rougemont Quote: “Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to.”

2. “Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to.”

— Denis de Rougemont

Denis de Rougemont Quote: “To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one’s being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.”

3. “To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one’s being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.”

— Denis de Rougemont

Denis de Rougemont Quote: “Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.”

4. “Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.”

— Denis de Rougemont

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Denis de Rougemont Quote: “Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.”

5. “Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.”

— Denis de Rougemont

Denis de Rougemont Quote: “Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and the strife thereby engendered constitutes a persistent danger for every one of our social safeguards.”

6. “Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and the strife thereby engendered constitutes a persistent danger for every one of our social safeguards.”

— Denis de Rougemont

Denis de Rougemont Quote: “Fallen myths can instill venom.”

7. “Fallen myths can instill venom.”

— Denis de Rougemont

Denis de Rougemont Quote: “What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering.”

8. “What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering.”

— Denis de Rougemont

Denis de Rougemont Quote: “This peculiar connexion between a certain view of woman and the European conception of war has had profound consequences for morality, education, and politics.”

9. “This peculiar connexion between a certain view of woman and the European conception of war has had profound consequences for morality, education, and politics.”

— Denis de Rougemont

Denis de Rougemont Quote: “So soon as passion goes beyond instinct and becomes truly itself, it tends to self self-description, either in order to justify or intensify its being, or else simply in order to keep going.”

10. “So soon as passion goes beyond instinct and becomes truly itself, it tends to self self-description, either in order to justify or intensify its being, or else simply in order to keep going.”

— Denis de Rougemont

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