Affection Quote by David Hume

“Look now. Look at what you value, what you hold dear. Objects, first. And not necessarily because of their innate value (although that might…

— Stephanie Kallos

“What causes love, since it is a passion, is its object; and since it is a sort of affinity or agreement with the object,…

— Thomas Aquinas

All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved,

— L. Frank Baum

“While a common reaction to seeing a thing of beauty is to want to buy it, our real desire may be not so much…

— Alain de Botton

“We can conclude from this that we are drawn to call something beautiful whenever we detect that it contains in a concentrated form those…

— Alain de Botton

An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest…

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

When we focus on what is good and beautiful in someone, whether or not we think that they "deserve" it, the good and beautiful…

— Katrina Kenison

Its odd how one thing could be the cause of so many contrary feelings. But thats what makes love so beautiful its the closest…

— Anonymous

That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing more than earnest, loving,…

— Anonymous

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too…

— Georg Buchner

No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature…

— Dalai Lama