Philosophy on love

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”

“Don't forget to love yourself.”

“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”

“Believe me, there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory...Everything is forgotten, even great love.”

“The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.”

“He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love — first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.”

“I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.”

“To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.”

“A scholar who loves comfort is not worthy of the name.”

“The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.”

“My task is to throw a light on that which we must always love and revere, of which no subsequent knowledge can rob us: man in his greatness.”

“Rather than cope with the unbearable loneliness of their condition men will continue to seek their shattered God, and for His sake they will love the very serpents that dwell among His ruins.”

“You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake; you must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand heap.”

“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.”

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”

“Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.”

“If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.”

“If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.”

“Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.”

“Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.”

“Neither family, nor privilege, nor wealth, nor anything but Love can light that beacon which a man must steer by when he sets out to live the better life.”

“For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet”

“Then we may begin by assuming that there are three classes of men—lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, lovers of gain?”

“My love, Alcibiades, which I hardly like to confess, would long ago have passed away, as I flatter myself, if I saw you loving your good things, or thinking that you ought to pass life in the enjoyment of them.”

“Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.”

“Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.”

“There are two classes of poets — the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.”

“Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see — not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.”

“In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.”