Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see
—Søren Kierkegaard
What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he’s certain he’ll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?
—Voltaire
“Holy men would prefer life-long sickness to willful sin.”
Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see
—Søren Kierkegaard
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In all things have no preferences.
—Miyamoto Musashi
Everyone prefers belief to the exercise of judgement.
—Seneca
I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.
—Blaise Pascal
Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
—Socrates
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
—Socrates
Prefer the company of a stranger who loves the truth to the company of a friend who doesn’t.
—Leo Tolstoy
The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
—Blaise Pascal
I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans.
Certainly, a wild animal is cruel.
But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.
—Sigmund Freud