Love Quote by Jacques Maritain

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

— Thomas Mann

We never, then, love a person, but only qualities

— Blaise Pascal

We never love a person, but only qualities.

— Blaise Pascal

Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.

— Ayn Rand

“Love means admiration for qualities in the lover that promise to correct our weaknesses and imbalances; love is a search for completion.”

— Alain de Botton

Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues.

— Anonymous

We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.

— St. Catherine of Siena

We do not love people because they are beautiful, we find them beautiful because we love them.

— Nishan Panwar

Love is unconditional acceptance. That quality is also our essential nature, who we really are.

— Peter Shepherd

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

— William Hazlitt

“the ability to love; the courage and strength it takes to love a person, no matter how different they are. Forgiving that they have…

— J.M. Sevilla