Love Quotes

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