| 19941 | Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself [Anon (Leviticus)] |
| 6327 | Do good to him who has done you an injury [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
| 14177 | Love assists men in achieving merit and happiness [Plato] |
| 176 | Love follows beauty, wisdom is exceptionally beautiful, so love follows wisdom [Plato] |
| 179 | Love is desire for perpetual possession of the good [Plato] |
| 5262 | Only lovable things are loved, and they must be good, or pleasant, or useful [Aristotle] |
| 5263 | Most people want to be loved rather than to love, because they desire honour [Aristotle] |
| 22582 | Spirit [thumos] is the capacity by which we love [Aristotle] |
| 507 | Virtuous love consists of decorous desire for the beautiful [Democritus (attr)] |
| 7894 | Hate is conquered by love [Anon (Dham)] |
| 20851 | Virtuous men do not feel sexual desire, which merely focuses on physical beauty [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 6289 | Love your enemies [Jesus] |
| 6292 | Love thy neighbour as thyself [Jesus] |
| 13321 | Is anything sweeter than valuing yourself more when you find you are loved? [Seneca] |
| 23357 | Knowledge of what is good leads to love; only the wise, who distinguish good from evil, can love [Epictetus] |
| 18448 | We should avoid the pleasures of love, or at least, should not enact our dreams [Porphyry] |
| 4348 | Love, and do what you will [Augustine] |
| 2359 | Desire and love are the same, but in the desire the object is absent, and in love it is present [Hobbes] |
| 7912 | Judging by effects, love looks more like hatred than friendship [Rochefoucauld] |
| 4848 | Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause [Spinoza] |
| 17217 | Love is joy with an external cause [Spinoza] |
| 12958 | Love is pleasure in the perfection, well-being or happiness of its object [Leibniz] |
| 23115 | We have no natural love of mankind, other than through various relationships [Hume] |
| 21429 | The duty of love is to makes the ends of others one's own [Kant] |
| 22071 | True love is ironic, in the contrast between finite limitations and the infinity of love [Schlegel,F] |
| 23238 | If life lacks love it becomes destruction [Fichte] |
| 22784 | Love is ethical life in its natural form [Hegel] |
| 6927 | If you love nothing, it doesn't matter whether something exists or not [Feuerbach] |
| 16003 | If people marry just because they are lonely, that is self-love, not love [Kierkegaard] |
| 15998 | Perfect love is not in spite of imperfections; the imperfections must be loved as well [Kierkegaard] |
| 20236 | Marriage upholds the idea that love, though a passion, can endure [Nietzsche] |
| 20252 | Marriage is too serious to be permitted for people in love! [Nietzsche] |
| 20263 | Fear reveals the natures of other people much more clearly than love does [Nietzsche] |
| 14855 | Simultaneous love and respect are impossible; love has no separation or rank, but respect admits power [Nietzsche] |
| 18319 | Love is the spiritualisation of sensuality [Nietzsche] |
| 20113 | Friendly chats undermine my philosophy; wanting to be right at the expense of love is folly [Nietzsche] |
| 18301 | We only really love children and work [Nietzsche] |
| 21746 | Unlike hate, all desires can be satisfied by love [Russell] |
| 23759 | Everything which originates in love is beautiful [Weil] |
| 22233 | Love is the demand to be loved [Sartre] |
| 19614 | Lovers are hateful, apart from their hovering awareness of death [Cioran] |
| 21751 | Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine] |
| 9252 | The more one loves the stronger the absurd grows [Camus] |
| 22339 | Love is a central concept in morals [Murdoch] |
| 22348 | Ordinary human love is good evidence of transcendent goodness [Murdoch] |
| 22713 | Love is realising something other than oneself is real [Murdoch] |
| 9235 | Rather than loving things because we value them, I think we value things because we love them [Frankfurt] |
| 9236 | Love can be cool, and it may not involve liking its object [Frankfurt] |
| 9237 | The paradigm case of pure love is not romantic, but that between parents and infants [Frankfurt] |
| 9239 | I value my children for their sake, but I also value my love for them for its own sake [Frankfurt] |
| 23962 | Lovers adopt the interests of their beloved, rather than just valuing them [Solomon] |
| 23117 | Love should be partial, and discriminate in favour of its object [Kekes] |
| 23119 | Sentimental love distorts its object [Kekes] |