“‎Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.”

“It's not at all uncommon to find a person's desires compelling him to go against his reason, and to see him cursing himself and venting his passion on the source of the compulsion within him. It's as if there were two warring factions, with passion fighting on the side of reason. But I'm sure you won't claim that you had ever, in yourself or in anyone else, met a case of passion siding with his desires against the rational mind, when the rational mind prohibits resistance.”

“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.”

“Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.”

“Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.”

“Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.”

“And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.”