Quote of Vladimir Jankélévitch - We cannot say why. The reason...

Biography - Vladimir Jankélévitch:

French philosopher and musicologist.
Born: 1903 - Died: 1985
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: France
France

We cannot say why. The reason for love is love. The reason for love is that we love.

Vladimir Jankélévitch

love

Translation

(French)

On ne peut pas dire pourquoi. La raison de l'amour, c'est l'amour. La raison de l'amour, c'est qu'on aime.

Vladimir Jankélévitch

Quotes about love:

Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Gustav Jung - Über die Psychologie des Unbewussten /

Love, love, all the rest is nothing.

Jean de La Fontaine - Les amours de Psyché et de Cupidon /

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We have need of morality only for want of love.

André Comte-Sponville /

To live means to love, but above all, to love life.

Blanche Pierson /

Intelligence has value only in the service of love.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery /

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

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Vladimir Jankélévitch also said...

If life is ephemeral, the fact of having lived a life which is ephemeral is an eternal fact.

Vladimir Jankélévitch - La Mort /

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