Love Quotes

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

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"Love is not a feeling but a commitment to another's welfare."
Immanuel Kant
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"Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love."
Baruch Spinoza
B
"The more we contemplate our external objects, the more we love them."
Baruch Spinoza
B
"The absence of love produces the greatest emptiness."
Baruch Spinoza
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"Love is the first expression of ethical consciousness"
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"Love transcends the separation between self and other"
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
John Locke
J
"Love is the ultimate expression of human connection."
John Locke
D
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of"
David Hume
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"To love is to admire with the heart"
David Hume
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"Man naturally desires not only to be loved, but to be lovely."
Adam Smith
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"Love is the overcoming of separation between self and other."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
G
"Love transforms the lover and the beloved into a new unity."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"He who has a true love of God must necessarily love himself."
Baruch Spinoza
B
"Love is joy accompanied by the idea of an external cause."
Baruch Spinoza
B
"Love, insofar as it is directed toward the eternal, is the greatest of joys."
Baruch Spinoza
T
"Love of country is the highest virtue."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
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"Love is the capacity to sacrifice for another without expectation of return."
Immanuel Kant
B
"Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love."
Baruch Spinoza
B
"Love and hatred are always accompanied by the idea of the object loved or hated."
Baruch Spinoza
B
"Those who love according to understanding rather than imagination love truly."
Baruch Spinoza
B
"The deepest love is the recognition of another's power to be and to create."
Baruch Spinoza
A
"Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be the natural and proper object of love."
Adam Smith
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"To love and be wise is not given to all."
John Locke
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"No one can legislate love into existence."
John Locke
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"Grief is the price we pay for love."
Thomas Hobbes
T
"Love is nothing but desire for perpetual satisfaction."
Thomas Hobbes
T
"In matters of the heart, logic is often the enemy of truth."
Thomas Hobbes
B
"Hatred is never appeased by hatred in return; it is only appeased by love."
Baruch Spinoza
B
"Reason teaches us to love as reason prescribes, not as passion commands."
Baruch Spinoza