Love
Doesn't Involve Only People
Our love doesn’t involve only people. There are many dozens
of loves and objects of love. We can love things, memories,
ideas, beauty, literature, music, God… Love isn’t
restricted to the love of people.
We can postulate that the most important object of love is
people. That people are the central part of love, and that
all other forms of love are just extensions and sometimes
perversions (such as the love of money).
Maybe. Maybe the central part of love is in fact the love of
people. Many of our loves are perversions, involving
secondary things and secondary or foolish paths. We often
forget the most important in life, and grasp the secondary
and false loves.
Nevertheless, human life and human love is made of much more
then just love of people. We can’t limit the object of our
loves to people – be they our relatives, our neighbours and
friends, or even mankind. Life supposes a broader
relationship of love: a relationship with other forms of
life and the universe, with knowledge and wisdom, with
beauty, music. We have to love more than just people.
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Great authors Quotations
To Love
People
Marcel Proust
Life is sown with miracles that only people who love can
wait for.
Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer, In the Shadow of
Young Girls in Flower
André Comte-Sponville
Suckling at our mother’s breast, we tasted not only milk but
love, just enough love to know that it was the only thing
that could ever satisfy us and that we will miss it forever.
Happiness
is probably no more than loving who you are, what you have
and what you do.
Whether life is or is not worth the pain of being lived, or,
rather, whether it is worth the pain and the pleasure of
being lived depends, first and foremost on one’s capacity
for love.
Happiness is to be happy in love, unhappiness is to be
unhappy in love, or to have no love at all.
It is love which keeps us alive, since it alone makes life
loveable. It is love which saves; it is therefore love which
must be saved.
André Comte-Sponville, French philosopher, A short
Treatise on the Great Virtues
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