Love Quotes

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

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"To love is to choose another."
Buber, Martin
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"True love begins where nothing is expected in return."
Buber, Martin
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"The I-Thou relationship is not partial but total."
Buber, Martin
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"The word of love is answered only by the word of love."
Buber, Martin
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"Love is the bridge between two souls."
Buber, Martin
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"The deepest need of the soul is supernatural love."
Weil, Simone
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"Supernatural love has no reward but itself."
Weil, Simone
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"Love is the orientation of the entire being toward the good."
Weil, Simone
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"Love is the only force capable of transforming enemies into friends."
Moore, George Edward
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"The relation to the Other is a relation of desire, not of need."
Levinas, Emmanuel
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"Love requires us to step outside ourselves and truly see another being."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
Russell, Bertrand
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"The verb to love is perhaps the most important verb in human experience."
Russell, Bertrand
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"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness that afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."
Russell, Bertrand
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"Love without justice is sentimentality; justice without love is tyranny."
Arendt, Hannah
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"Passion is the only authentic response to existence."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Desire reveals what reason conceals."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Love is responsibility of an I for a Thou."
Buber, Martin
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"The basis of marriage is understanding."
Buber, Martin
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"The world becomes clearer when we look at it with love."
Buber, Martin
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"To love is to take responsibility for the becoming of the beloved."
Buber, Martin
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"The measure of our maturity is our capacity to love."
Buber, Martin
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"The beloved is not a means to an end but an end in themselves."
Buber, Martin
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"Love demands that we see the wholeness of the other."
Buber, Martin
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"The soul's deepest need is to be loved for what it truly is, not what it pretends to be."
Weil, Simone
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"To love purely is to love without expectation of return."
Weil, Simone
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"To love one thing completely is to love the whole universe."
Weil, Simone
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"Love is the attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."
Moore, George Edward
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"Love without truth is sentimentality; truth without love is cruelty."
Moore, George Edward
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"Love is the hunger that can never be satisfied, the transcendence of self."
Levinas, Emmanuel