Aristotle uses a mother’s love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
Aristotle uses a mother’s love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That’s why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
Freud’s view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.
One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation – the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
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