“The craving to be understood may in the end be merest egoism.” DesireUnderstoodLongingEgoism Book:Aphorisms Source: Aphorisms
“To love unsatisfied the world is a mystery, a mystery which love satisfied seems to comprehend. The latter is wrong only because it cannot be content without thinking itself right.” LoveDesireSatisfactionBeing Book:Aphorisms Source: Aphorisms
“It is bad to doubt if one is loved, but it may be worse past all comparison to doubt if one loves.” LoveDesireLoved Book:Aphorisms Source: Aphorisms
“In an intellectual aspirant the safest love is for an imaginary object, and that, perhaps, includes all love without possession. If we are to beget unrealities, we must know how to be happy with clouds.” LoveChangeAbsoluteObject Book:Aphorisms Source: Aphorisms
“When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection.” LoveReligionMarriagePossessionResurrectionMonogamy Author:F.H. Bradley
“At the beginning a man, perhaps, thinks it would be madness to love. He thinks later, perhaps, it was madness to have ever held back. He thinks last that the madness was in ever having thought at all. God is God and there is one God.” LoveTimeMadness Book:Aphorisms Source: Aphorisms
“Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigram. Our heart's blood as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.” RealityLanguageExperienceWords Book:Aphorisms Source: Aphorisms
“If a woman loves you, you are seeking you know not what when you desire that she also understand you.” LoveUnderstandingMarriage Book:Aphorisms Source: Aphorisms