Constantin Brunner: Quotes about love

Constantin Brunner was German philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on love.

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“Love and anger are a single fire of the Spirit.”

Constantin Brunner

Source: Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921), p. 169
Context: Great, strong, spiritual love — which is always at the same time a genuine, unsentimental love of man — cannot be without wrath. … Anger can no more be separated from love than flame and heat can from fire. Love and anger are a single fire of the Spirit.

Love , Anger

“And so, from this day forth, we want all the more to let our thoughts revolve around and hover over Socrates and Christ at all times, openly taking pride that they are more alive for us than all those living today and that we listen to and love them as we do none of the living.”

Constantin Brunner

Source: Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921), p. 188

Love , Time , Christ

“In mysticism, everything is thrown at us directly, without discursiveness and ratiocination, as if it were a matter of course, and we are challenged to follow an unrestrainable will to love, arising out of a tremendously agitated, indiscriminate feeling. … Mystics will—rather than know—their thoughts. … Mysticism witnesses nothing but love; mysticism is nothing but love. … Art shows how it loves, philosophy what it loves; mysticism knows only that it loves.”

Constantin Brunner

Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921)

Love , Art , Feeling