We have compiled a collection of the finest philosopher love quotes from some of the greatest thinkers that have ever lived. Many of great sayings about love have been passed onto generations. But, some of them are as memorable as they can get, whether written or spoken.
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Thought-provoking philosophical love phrases
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. — Leo Tolstoy
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. — Plato
Love, like a tear, rises in the eye and falls upon the breast. — Publilius Syrus
Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see. — Soren Kierkegaard
Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind. — Confucius
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. — Francis Bacon
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
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. — Bertrand Russell
Inspiring philosophical love quotes to elevate your mind
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Laozi
Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse. — Bertrand Russell
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same. — Voltaire
Love’s wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them. — Publilius Syrus
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love. — Rumi
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love. — Publilius Syrus
Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love. — Rumi
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity. — Soren Kierkegaard
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. — Frederiche Nietzsche
Philosopher love quotes on relationship
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. — Friedrich Nietzsche
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. — Leo Tolstoy
… in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself. — Leo Tolstoy
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. — Bertrand Russell
Between whom there is hearty truth there is love. — Henry David Thoreau
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. — Joseph de Maistre
A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery. — Gabriel Marcel
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. — Thomas Aquinas
But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. — Theodor Adorno
Philosopher love quotes about friendship
Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends. — Plato
Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. — Bruce Lee
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do? — Friedrich Nietzsche
Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killing the object of its love so that it may be removed once and for all from the wicked game of change: for love dreads change even more than annihilation. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much. — Aristotle
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. ― Elbert Hubbard
Self-love philosophical quotes and sayings
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it. — Voltaire
One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Love others as you would love yourself, judge others as you would judge yourself, cherish others as you would cherish yourself. When you wish for others as you wish for yourself and when you protect others as you would protect yourself, that’s when you can say it’s true love. — Confucius
Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. — Iris Murdoch
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her. — Laozi
Don’t forget to love yourself. — Soren Kierkegaard
Self love is the instrument of our preservation. — Voltaire
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others. — Plato
A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Greatest philosophical quotes about love
In true love it is the soul that envelops the body. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Love must be as much a light as it is a flame. — Henry David Thoreau
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can be denied where it does. — Torquato Tasso
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. — Erich Fromm
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ — Erich Fromm
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be. — Leo Tolstoy
When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust – but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation. — Leo Tolstoy
Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you. — Voltaire
Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it. — Baruch Spinoza
To love a thing means wanting it to live. — Confucius
To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it. — Confucius
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none. — Denis Diderot
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Spiritual philosophical quotation
All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy. — Plato
Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences. — Al-Ghazali
Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf. — Confucius
Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Therefore the best fortress is to be found in the love of the people, for although you may have fortresses they will not save you if you are hated by the people. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Love is the bridge between you and everything. — Rumi
In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice; it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches if it is not to feel under a curse. — Theodor Adorno
If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows. — Rumi
Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods. — George Santayana
Often love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity. — Al-Ghazali
Philosophical quotes about life and love
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love. — Socrates
No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over. — Soren Kierkegaard
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. — Soren Kierkegaard
To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live. — Leo Tolstoy
Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life – however, it can spoil it, too. — Confucius
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. — Friedrich Nietzsche
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. — Bertrand Russell
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. — Bertrand Russell
If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted. — Rumi
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. — Rumi
Where there is love there is life. — Mahatma Gandhi
One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love. — Sophocles
Fortune and love favour the brave. — Ovid
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. — Lao Tzu
Philosophical love quotes on woman
Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry. — Harriet Martineau
The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman’s perspectives from the start. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble. — Voltaire
In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. — Rumi
Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven. — Bertrand Russell
Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion. — Thomas Aquinas
For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us. — Thomas Aquinas
Great philosopher love quotes to get happiness
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. — Immanuel Kant
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. — Leo Tolstoy
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. — Bertrand Russell
When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy. — Hafez
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. — Bertrand Russell
Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces. — Rumi
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We can only learn to love by loving. — Iris Murdoch
What a miserable world! – trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love. — Joseph de Maistre
To love is to will the good of the other. — Thomas Aquinas
If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest. — Plato
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. — Voltaire
Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends. — George Santayana
No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base. — Iris Murdoch
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. — Iris Murdoch
Short ancient philosopher love quotes
In love, anger is always false. — Publilius Syrus
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. — Rumi
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all. — Soren Kierkegaard
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself. — Soren Kierkegaard
In love, one and one are one. — Jean-Paul Sartre
The greatest pleasure in life is love. — Euripides
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. — Plato
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine
The love we give away is the only love we keep. — Elbert Hubbard
Every heart sings a song incomplete until another heart whispers back. — Plato
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. — Boethiusr
The first duty of love is to listen. — Paul Tillich
We are asleep until we fall in love! — Leo Tolstoy
To love someone is to identify with them. — Aristotle
Forgiveness is the final form of love. — Reinhold Niebuhr
The science of love is the philosophy of the heart. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. — Rumi
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. — Theodor Adorno
Love is the cause of unity in all things. — Aristotle
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. — Plato
The things that we love tell us what we are. — Thomas Aquinas
To get rid of an enemy one must love him. — Leo Tolstoy
Love truth, but pardon error. — Voltaire
I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion. — Voltaire
It is impossible to love and to be wise. — Francis Bacon
Deep philosophical quotes about love
Love is the infinite which is given to the finite. Therefore we love in others, for we do not merely love others, but we love the Love that is in them and which is more than their or our love. — Paul Tillich
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world. — Bertrand Russell
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. — Plato
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you. — Bertrand Russell
The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them. — Publilius Syrus
We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love. — Paul Tillich
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. — Voltaire
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art. — Rumi
Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. — George Edward Moore
I need you because I love you. — Erich Fromm
More love quotes from philosopher
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. — Plato
… so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed. — George Santayana
Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves. — George Santayana
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. — George Santayana
The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation. — Ovid
You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die. — Gabriel Marcel
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it. — Francis Bacon
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. — Friedrich Nietzsche
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love. — Francis Bacon
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. — Laozi
Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love. — Ovid
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