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Philosophy Quotes About Love

Philosophers treat love as more than a private feeling: it can be desire, mutual goodwill, recognition, or a disciplined commitment to another’s good. These passages gather that vocabulary without reducing love to a greeting-card slogan.

50 quotations on love

  1. Love is the desire for the perpetual possession of the good.
  2. A friend is another self.
  3. Of all that wisdom provides for the happiness of a whole life, by far the greatest is the possession of friendship.
  4. It is not things that disturb people, but their judgments about things.
  5. If you wish to be loved, love.
  6. Late have I loved you, beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you!
  7. Compassion is the basis of morality.
  8. Amor fati: let that be my love from now on!
  9. Do not seek for things to happen as you wish, but wish for things to happen as they do, and you will flow well.
  10. Nature's wealth has its bounds and is easy to procure; but the wealth of vain fancies recedes to an infinite distance.
  11. In the bitterest turns of fortune, true friends are proved.
  12. Wealth does not take away need — it kindles new wants.
  13. The Master said: Is it not a pleasure to learn and to practice what one has learned in due time? Is it not a joy to have friends come from afar? Is it not the mark of a gentleman to remain unresentful when others fail to appreciate one?
  14. The Master said: Those who know it are not equal to those who love it; those who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.
  15. Mencius said: Those who love others are constantly loved by others; those who respect others are constantly respected by others.
  16. Heaven moves with vigor; the gentleman accordingly strengthens himself without cease.
  17. Care for one another impartially, and benefit one another mutually.
  18. Those who in ancient or modern times achieved great enterprises and profound learning must pass through three realms: first, standing alone atop a high tower after the west wind withers the green trees, gazing to the end of the road at heaven's edge; second, the belt growing looser without regret, wasting away for the beloved; third, searching a thousand times in the crowd, then suddenly turning — and finding that person standing where the lanterns grow sparse.
  19. Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
  20. Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
  21. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.
  22. Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
  23. First, it always is, and neither comes to be nor perishes.
  24. It is perhaps also strange to make the happy person a solitary.
  25. From the very fountain of delights rises something bitter that chokes among the flowers themselves.
  26. Two loves have made two cities.
  27. Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another.
  28. Man is a useless passion.
  29. Before joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure are issued, that is called the Mean; when issued and all hit due measure, that is called Harmony.
  30. After this we should speak of friendship; for it is a kind of virtue, or involves virtue.
  31. I shall endeavor not to laugh at human actions, nor to weep over them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
  32. Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
  33. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
  34. Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
  35. The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
  36. Friendship cannot exist except among the good.
  37. Love, and do what you will.
  38. Hatreds never cease through hatred in this world.
  39. The cry of the flesh is not to be hungry, not to be thirsty, not to be cold.
  40. All things are alien to us; time alone is ours.
  41. to change my desires rather than the order of the world
  42. Not to laugh at, lament, or detest human actions, but to understand them.
  43. Treat the elders of your own family with reverence, and extend that to the elders of others; treat your own young with kindness, and extend that to the young of others.
  44. Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely.
  45. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love… can once again be made central.
  46. Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a standing in, not a falling for.
  47. Late have I loved you, beauty so ancient and so new.
  48. the Love that moves the sun and the other stars
  49. If all under Heaven love one another universally, there is order; if they hate one another mutually, there is disorder.
  50. Perfect friendship is the friendship of those who are good and alike in virtue.

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