Love Quotes

The force that moves poets, philosophers, and ordinary people to extraordinary acts.

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"In love, we risk the illusion of perfect understanding and accept the reality of persistent mystery."
Maurice Natanson
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"Love is both a personal experience and a social institution."
Peter Berger
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"Love is the last refuge from the demands of culture."
Philip Rieff
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"Love is the rebellion of the individual against the collective."
Philip Rieff
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"Love transcends all boundaries."
David Riesman
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"We are each others' possibility; potential is realized in relationship."
Maurice Natanson
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"We are most ourselves when we are most genuinely with another."
Maurice Natanson
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"Love is not a feeling we have but a practice we perform, day after day."
Maurice Natanson
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"Love cannot flourish where commitment has become optional"
Philip Rieff
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"Love requires a conviction that the beloved is worth the sacrifice of the self"
Philip Rieff
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"Love is the willingness to be bound by something larger than oneself"
Philip Rieff
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"Love is the recognition of truth in another."
Lucien Goldmann
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"Love is the deepest form of human recognition."
Lucien Goldmann
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"Modern love is largely an exercise in mutual admiration."
David Riesman
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"Love is the most powerful human force."
Siegfried Kracauer
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"Love is the only power that can transcend the boundaries of time and space."
Ernst Bloch
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"To love is to risk everything."
Ernst Bloch
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"Love demands limitation; unlimited desire is not love."
Philip Rieff
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"Love without sacrifice is mere sentiment."
Philip Rieff
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"Love is perhaps the most powerful force for validating another person's existence and reality."
Peter Berger
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"Love and intimacy are the primary ways we affirm each other's reality and worth."
Peter Berger
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"Love and despair are the only possible responses to this world."
Herbert Marcuse
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"We must learn to love dangerously, against the grain of society."
Herbert Marcuse
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"Love is the refusal to accept another person as they are without also imagining who they might become."
Ernst Bloch
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"Love teaches us that we are incomplete alone and enriched together."
Ernst Bloch
"Love and desire reveal fundamental aspects of human existence"
Edmund Husserl
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"Love in a commodity society risks becoming another form of exchange rather than genuine connection."
Herbert Marcuse
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"Love is the recognition of another's unfinished potential."
Ernst Bloch
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"In love, we see ourselves as we might become."
Ernst Bloch
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"Love, like all human emotions, is shaped by the social structures within which it develops."
Lucien Goldmann