Love is a natural extension of complete knowledge.
This is something really weird I never intended to write...
“It would be impossible to ‘love’ anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.” ~Paul Valéry, Tel quel, 1943
With this statement, I disagree. I believe that love is a natural extension of complete knowledge. The mystery may lead to infatuation, obsession, any number of other things, but a complete, boundless understanding of any person will, in my opinion, lead to love of some kind.
One may disagree with this. One may say that if you know everything about someone, all of their faults, all of the terrible things they’ve done in their life, it can be impossible to ever truly love them. But you can have every solid fact of a life memorized without truly knowing a person.
Knowing someone is not simply being able to say that they wake up at 4:00 every morning; knowing someone is being able to say that they’ve woken up at 4:00 every morning since they were six, and they look out the window and watch the sun rise, because it reminds them of a time when they were happiest.
You can know the every fault and flaw of a person without hating them for it. You can know the fact of killing their parents without knowing that they did it in order to protect their baby sister from their abuse. With the partial knowledge, the factual knowledge, hatred may come; but with the complete knowledge, knowing fears, motivations, thoughts, emotions, love is the reaction.
Yeah, I know. Thank QuoteGarden for inspiration.
“It would be impossible to ‘love’ anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.” ~Paul Valéry, Tel quel, 1943
With this statement, I disagree. I believe that love is a natural extension of complete knowledge. The mystery may lead to infatuation, obsession, any number of other things, but a complete, boundless understanding of any person will, in my opinion, lead to love of some kind.
One may disagree with this. One may say that if you know everything about someone, all of their faults, all of the terrible things they’ve done in their life, it can be impossible to ever truly love them. But you can have every solid fact of a life memorized without truly knowing a person.
Knowing someone is not simply being able to say that they wake up at 4:00 every morning; knowing someone is being able to say that they’ve woken up at 4:00 every morning since they were six, and they look out the window and watch the sun rise, because it reminds them of a time when they were happiest.
You can know the every fault and flaw of a person without hating them for it. You can know the fact of killing their parents without knowing that they did it in order to protect their baby sister from their abuse. With the partial knowledge, the factual knowledge, hatred may come; but with the complete knowledge, knowing fears, motivations, thoughts, emotions, love is the reaction.
Yeah, I know. Thank QuoteGarden for inspiration.