Alone Is Alone, Not Alive
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Alone Is Alone, Not Alive
In effect I think that liberals and libertarians converge around the idea that love is a futile risk.
Nicolas Truong • In Praise of Love
Bertrand Russell wrote that ‘To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead’.
Matt Haig • The Midnight Library: The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon
“Love, but be careful what you love,” the Roman African philosopher Saint Augustine wrote in the final years of the fourth century. We are, in some deep sense, what we love — we become it as much as it becomes us, beckoned from our myriad conscious and unconscious longings, despairs, and patterned desires. And yet there is something profoundly para... See more
Maria Popova • Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss
To allow yourself to play with another person is no small risk. It means allowing yourself to be open, to be exposed, to be hurt. It is the human equivalent of the dog rolling on its back—I know you won’t hurt me, even though you can. It is the dog putting its mouth around your hand and never biting down. To play requires trust and love.