When you didn't force yourself to think in formal reconstructions, when you didn't catch these moments of ravishments under the lens of premises and conclusions, when you didn't impale them and label them, like so many splayed butterflies, bleeding the transcendental glow right out of them, then... what?
We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Edgar Allan Poe
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.
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Tom Robbins
Love is not the absence of logicbut logic examined and recalculatedheated and curved to fitinside the contours of the heart
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Tammara Webber
Love is illogical, love had consequences-- I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.
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Marie Lu
What does the brain matter compared with the heart?
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Virginia Woolf
More Quotes By Rebecca Goldstein
No validation of our rationality - of our very sanity - can be accomplished using our rationality itself. How can a person operating within a system of beliefs, including beliefs about beliefs, get outside that system to determine whether it is rational? If your entire...
(As Plato:) There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.
Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge.
Thinking is the soul speaking to itself.
Plato worries our thinking might become too reflexive and comfortable with itself.
