“No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is pretense or dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals.” PeopleWorldLoveIdeasSelfFeelingsIndividualStruggleDangerousDutyAffectionDelusionVirtuousPretenseSelf Delusion Book:The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd
“Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself...As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.” KnowsLoveFeelingsAbleEarthFormSpiritIndividualHeavenStruggleHappenedReturnEternityDeedsLiberationEnjoymentDividedHeaven And EarthTotalityFree SpiritBlessedness Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.” MenLoveBelieveDoeIndividualI BelieveI Believe InHarmHurtfulBelieve In LoveGood LoveIndividual Happiness Author:Napoleon Bonaparte