6 Quotes by Frank Tallis

Love is a kind of symptom that arises through the repression of libido.

It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.

We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.

All mature adults must accept that they are essentially unknowable – and that they will never know the one they love. Even when we kiss there is distance; it is a distance that cannot be bridged by romantic love and must be respected if a relationship is to succeed. The real metric by which we can gauge the authenticity of love is not how close we want to be, how merged and intermingled, but how far we can stand apart and still be together.

All mature adults must accept that they are essentially unknowable – and that they will never know the one they love.

Moreover, we forget things every day, so in a sense we are constantly dissolving into nothingness.