50 Philosophical Love Phrases to Rethink This Deep Feeling

What is done for love is always beyond good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no one, even without culture, who does not become a poet when love takes care of him.

Plato

There is always some madness in love. But there’s always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Loving is not looking at each other, it’s looking together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is only possible to teach a child to love by loving him.

Johann Goethe

Love, to be beautiful, does not need to be eternal.

Júlio Dantas

Of human loves, the least selfish, the purest and most disinterested is the love of friendship.

cicero

Love is not defined; sit down.

seneca

The measure of love is to love without measure.

Saint Augustine

There are no guarantees. From the point of view of fear, no one is strong enough. From the point of view of love, no one is needed.

Immanuel Kant

Kindness in words creates trust; kindness in thought creates depth; kindness in gift creates love.

Lao Tzu

Love is formed of a single soul, dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

Love: a dangerous mental illness.

Plato

Selfishness is not love for ourselves, but a mad passion for ourselves.

Aristotle

Love is a force, an energy, which manifests in the soul as a feeling of remembrance of something the soul once had but lost.

Plato

Love is a canvas provided by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Voltaire

In life two things are certain: love and death!

Plato

Talking incessantly in hyperbole is only well suited to love.

Francis Bacon

The pleasures of love never served us. We should consider ourselves happy if we are not bored.

epicurus

One word frees us from all the weight and pain of life. That word is “love”.

Sophocles

Love is essential; that is to say, when we love something, we think we cannot do without it, we cannot admit a life in which we exist and the beloved does not; we regard it, in short, as part of ourselves. Or, in almost the same words: my being is not only me, but me and the loved one, me and the essential.

Julian Marias

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already dead.

Bertrand Russell

Love is the strongest of all passions, because it attacks the head, the heart and the senses simultaneously.

Lao Tzu

Love is an endless act of forgiveness, a tender look that becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

To love is to give what you don’t have to someone who doesn’t want it.

Jacques Lacan

There is no generous love other than that which knows itself to be both transient and singular.

Albert Camus

Of all my limitations, I know that in love I will never have limits. Even if love is limited to my love.

Socrates

Love built on beauty soon dies.

John Donne

Love consists in leading a being to the perfection of himself.

Romantic love is an illusion. Many of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or when love’s sweet emotions drive us into marriage and then we reject its flames.

Thomas Moore

Love does not point the way. He is the direction itself.

It is in the silence, in the unspoken words that the purest love is found.

Happy is the one who knows how to love and doesn’t get lost on the way. On the contrary, he finds himself.

There is poison and healing in love. Which dose do you choose?

Love overcomes the barriers of time and space. He supports everything.

Unconditional love is for fools. We need to learn the limits and delights of love, free of charge.

It doesn’t matter the type of love: only the one that is reciprocal and respectful is true.

Don’t be fooled: the path of love is not full of thorns, but of flowers – which are planted and cultivated together.

Only divine love supports everything, because we are human, we are flawed and we have our limitations.

What’s the point if not to love and be loved?

Remember: the only genuine and eternal love is the love of God.

Deep down, we’re all looking for that kind of love that will take the ground off our feet.

Love is an unknown that is worth deciphering.

Even when difficult, love is easy.

Loving with intensity does not presuppose giving up your own feelings, but trying to understand them.

There are still so many types of loves that we haven’t lived yet.

Love has many languages ​​and we are illiterate in almost all of them.

No love happens, all are built.

Love does not seek judgment, but understanding.

It is in love that the true essence of any person lies.