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"In love, we seek to possess the other's freedom while maintaining our own; this is the impossible dream of love."Sartre, Jean-Paul
"Love is the desire to merge with another's freedom while preserving one's own; an impossible task."Sartre, Jean-Paul
"Love is the only thing that can transcend death."Popper, Karl
"The more one loves, the more one suffers. The heart was not made for joy."Sartre, Jean-Paul
"In love, one and one do not make two."Sartre, Jean-Paul
"The act of love is not about possession but liberation."Sartre, Jean-Paul
"Love is an emotional commitment grounded in rational appreciation."Ayer, Alfred Jules
"Love and reason are not enemies but can work together."Ayer, Alfred Jules
"Love is the willingness to see another fully."Heidegger, Martin
"If someone says he has Christian love in his heart, his conception of what love is must be refined and deepened."Wittgenstein, Ludwig
"The real problem of humankind is not violence, but the absence of love."Dewey, John
"Love is the highest form of understanding."Dilthey, Wilhelm
"The most precious possession you can own is an open heart."James, William
"Love is the willingness to let the beloved be fully themselves."Heidegger, Martin
"Love is life's great beautifier."Spencer, Herbert
"The test of a true lover is whether you can endure his flaws."Spencer, Herbert
"In love, we encounter the other not as an object but as a subject whose inner world we seek to understand."Dilthey, Wilhelm
"Love is the recognition of another's being as equal in worth and dignity to one's own."Dilthey, Wilhelm
"The agapistic principle embraces evolutionary love as the fundamental reality."Peirce, Charles Sanders
"Love is the vital principle of society."Spencer, Herbert
"Love will make a man work for the good of the woman he loves more persistently and pugnaciously than any other motive."James, William
"The true opposite of love is not hate but indifference."James, William
"Love is the highest form of understanding."Peirce, Charles Sanders
"The love of humanity should be the fundamental principle of all social organization."Comte, Auguste
"Society must be rebuilt on the basis of universal love."Comte, Auguste
"Love is the principle which ought to govern society."Comte, Auguste
"The love of others is the highest expression of the human spirit."Comte, Auguste
"Love is the recognition of kinship with another."Spencer, Herbert
"The power of love is what makes all things possible."Peirce, Charles Sanders
"The heart has its reasons that reason knows not of."Peirce, Charles Sanders