Love Quotes

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

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"One cannot love what one does not admire."
Descartes, René
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"In love, the heart reasons what the mind cannot."
Descartes, René
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"The passion of love contains within it all other passions."
Descartes, René
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"Love is the bridge between souls."
Al-Ghazali
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"To understand love, one must understand sacrifice."
Avicenna
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"The heart knows many things the mind cannot understand."
Avicenna
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"To love is to place another's happiness above your own comfort."
Locke, John
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"Where love is absent, all virtues flee from the heart."
Locke, John
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"To love another is to see their potential and help them realize it."
Maimonides
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"Hatred blinds; love illuminates."
Maimonides
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"Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of its cause."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Understanding produces the highest form of love."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs."
Descartes, René
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"To love wisely is to love with both heart and reason in agreement."
Avicenna
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"Love is the bridge between the material and the divine."
Al-Ghazali
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"Love is the force that holds the cosmos together and gives it meaning."
Al-Ghazali
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"Love is the beauty of the soul."
Augustine of Hippo
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"Judge a love by its fruits, not by its flowers."
Augustine of Hippo
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"The things that we love tell us what we are."
Thomas Aquinas
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"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."
Thomas Aquinas
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"It is impossible to love and to be wise."
Thomas Aquinas
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"Love is a binding force that draws beings together."
Thomas Aquinas
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"The measure of love is to love without measure."
Thomas Aquinas
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"Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
Cicero
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"To love wisdom is to take the first step toward immortality."
Avicenna
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"The things that we love tell us what we are."
Thomas Aquinas
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"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."
Thomas Aquinas
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"To love is to will the good of another."
Thomas Aquinas
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"The greater the understanding, the greater the capacity for love."
Thomas Aquinas
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"To love another is to desire their good."
Thomas Aquinas