Love & Devotion

English Translation: "The presence of a thought is like the presence of a beloved."Original (German): "Die Gegenwart eines Gedankens ist wie die Gegenwart einer Geliebten.

Arthur Schopenhauer Parerga and Paralipomena

The dominant feature in his character was his devotion to the pursuit of truth

Baruch Spinoza Ethics (Ethica)

Celuy ayme peu qui ayme à la mesure. He loves little who loves by rule.

Michel de Montaigne Essais

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

Voltaire Candide & Philosophical Dictionary

He knew she was there by the joy and fear that overwhelmed his heart.

Leo Tolstoy War and Peace & A Calendar of Wisdom

The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare First Folio & Sonnets

The senses, no less than the soul, have their spiritual mysteries to reveal.

Oscar Wilde De Profundis & Essays

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice — and always has been.

Mark Twain Notebooks & Autobiography

that new saint than whom none purer or more brave was ever led by love of men into conflict and death,—the new saint awaiting his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First and Second Series

Love is a severe critic. Hate can pardon more than love.

Henry David Thoreau Walden

A prayerful heart is the vehicle and service makes the heart prayerful.

Mahatma Gandhi The Story of My Experiments with Truth

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings & Essays

Captured by John Wheeler, Einstein's paradoxical travel philosophy—"I love to travel, but I hate to arrive"—reveals a mind perpetually drawn to the journey of discovery over its finality.

Albert Einstein Ideas and Opinions

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan Cosmos & Pale Blue Dot

Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali & Stray Birds

Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Kahlil Gibran The Prophet

I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world ... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi.

Hannah Arendt The Human Condition

If I had amnesia, I'd be almost like other men. Perhaps I'd even be able to love you.

Simone de Beauvoir The Ethics of Ambiguity

No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.

Bertrand Russell The Conquest of Happiness

The madness of Love—God intoxicated man The allegory of Radha misunderstood The restriction more increase— Lust is the death of love Self is the death of love individual to general.

Swami Vivekananda Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

視卒如愛子，故可與之俱死。 • Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.

Sun Tzu The Art of War

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Cicero De Officiis & Tusculan Disputations

It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.

Augustine of Hippo Confessions

As soon as the soul has been made to perceive that a thing can conduct it to that which it loves supremely, it must inevitably embrace it with joy.

Blaise Pascal Pensées

You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.

Marcus Aurelius Meditations