Some more thoughts on love, expressed in quotes...
"Sensible people are not inspired people. Sensible people, in fact, are often shortsighted people. They cannot penetrate into the secrets of the universe... To see into the core of things, you have to be transported. You have to be in love."
"In order to be inflamed intellectually, we need to be enlisted emotionally. In the absence of emotional engagement, most people do not interrogate themselves about topics for which there is no immediate or pragmatic urgency... Love makes us explore. Love makes us blaze through new subjects and new cultures; it makes us hatch new visions."
"The love between the two thinkers was not exclusive, but inclusive. It asked. It comprehended. It cherished. And it survived."
"The two philosophers began by identifying the truths about each other and ended by identifying the truths about their time."
"It is curious that only those incapable of producing great work believe that the contrary is the proper conduct: to take science, art, or politics seriously and disdain love affairs as mere frivolities."
"They knew that, far from representing an act of weakness or docility, women's love - like men's - is a struggle. It is conquest and self-conquest. Far from proving incompatible with a muscular intellectual life, it is its natural counterpart. Strong thoughts engender strong emotions. A woman accustomed to reasoning for herself is unlikely to leave courting, desiring, sacrificing, swaggering, or indeed self-dramatization to the opposite sex. She is unlikely to shrink from a fight."
"Love, for the strong-hearted and strong-minded woman, is a game like all others - albeit perhaps the most important game."
"We had played too many games for me not to try this one too."
"Still, after all they had been through together, he understood her more than any other man on earth."
"...even while lovers are striving to be truthful about their feelings to their quarry, they must hold something back for the quarry to hunt in them."
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment