The Power of Love
LOVE
Love forgives the lover even his lust.
-Friedrich Nietzsche (The Joyous Science, aphorism 62)
In this quote, Nietzsche wanted to describe the power of love. He highlights that even love that is lustful is fine and acceptable. Getting in touch with our emotions is very human and important.
The feeling of love can have profound meaning in our lives. Love can:
help motivate us to take action in life
give us pleasure and joy
cause us to feel pain and suffering
Without love, where would humanity be?
Love is a very powerful emotion!
References
Nietzsche, Friedrich (1882). The Joyous Science. Translated (2018) Hill, Kevin. Penguin Random House
“Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
“The power of love
Is a curious thing”
— Huey Lewis and the News