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Quotes About Love

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.
~ Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
~ George Santayana
Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.
~ Mark Doty
Love is an act of courage.
~ Paulo Freire
Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.
~ Robin Williams
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.
~ Epicurus
People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.
~ Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.
~ Mason Cooley
Feel all you can, let your heart speak and guide you. Don't be afraid of the love deep inside you.
~ Roger Hodgson
We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
~ Iris Murdoch
Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto
~ Scott Adams
My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.
~ Elvis Presley
I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle.
~ John Denver
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
~ Emil M. Cioran
...love rather than fear...this radical philosophy is coming from me, an avowed misanthrope...surely there is hope for us all.
~ Bill Hicks
We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the highest philosophy.
~ Swami Vivekananda
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
~ Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock
If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.
~ Jeff Bridges
My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.
~ Omar Sharif
It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
~ Bette Midler
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
~ George Santayana
The best things in life are crazy.
~ Emme Rollins, Dear Rockstar