Love Quotes

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

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"Understanding is the intellectual form of love."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"In the real world, love and reason are incompatible rivals."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Love is a mutual admiration of difference."
Alfred North Whitehead
"Love across cultures proves that understanding transcends language."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Love proves that understanding can transcend all constructed boundaries."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"A man may be in love with a beautiful woman without this having any effect upon his reasoning."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Love is the greatest force on earth."
Jérémie Bentham
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"Love, like knowledge, must be pursued with both passion and reason."
Karl Popper
"Love is the recognition of otherness as essential to self."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Love requires the surrender of our need for control."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"Love is the binding force of human civilization."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Love transcends all boundaries and barriers."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
Johann Tetens
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"Love is patient, love is kind."
Johann Tetens
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"Love is the strongest of all physical attractions."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"Love is the force that binds all other virtues together."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Love is not a feeling but rather a commitment renewed daily through action."
Johann Tetens
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"Love is the recognition of yourself in another and the choice to honor what you see."
Johann Tetens
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"Love is the body's recognition of another body as necessary to its happiness."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"The passion between lovers is no different in nature from any animal coupling."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"Love is the alignment of two systems of perception into one."
George Berkeley
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"Love without respect is merely a pleasant delusion that dissolves when reality appears."
Antonio Genovesi
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"In matters of love, honesty is always superior to elaborate deception, however well-intentioned."
Antonio Genovesi
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"To love without possession, to give without expectation—this is the highest form of love."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Love itself is but a refined arrangement of matter seeking continuity."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"To love is to recognize oneself in another's material being."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"Love transcends the merely physical and constitutes the deepest expression of human connection."
Johann Tetens
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"Love, when genuine, requires the vulnerability to be known and accepted entirely by another."
Johann Tetens
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"Love demands sacrifice, yet it enriches all who give it."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Love binds society together"
Giovanni Vico