“Human love, now even more than then, is widely tasked with achieving what once only divine love was thought capable of: to be our ultimate source of meaning and happiness, and of power over suffering and disappointment.” — Simon May Copy Share Image
“By imputing to human love features properly reserved for divine love, such as the unconditional and the eternal, we falsify the nature of this most conditional and time-bound and earthy emotion, and force it to labour under intolerable expectations. This… — Simon May Copy Share Image
Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself. — Simon May Copy Share Image
“This is how all love works. Like Israel's love for God, love does not need deep knowledge of the other to be evoked and… — Simon May Copy Share Image
“This is the feeling that I call ‘ontological rootedness’ – ontology being that branch of philosophy that deals with the nature and experience of… — Simon May Copy Share Image
“Human love, now even more than then, is widely tasked with achieving what once only divine love was thought capable of: to be our… — Simon May Copy Share Image
“By imputing to human love features properly reserved for divine love, such as the unconditional and the eternal, we falsify the nature of this… — Simon May Copy Share Image
The only 'natural enemies' are those who take one's very nature as an offence. — Simon May Copy Share Image
