Quote of the Week - Kierkegaard on Love
Is it an excellence in your love that it can love only the
extraordinary, the rare? If it were love’s merit to love the
extraordinary, then God would be — if I dare say so — perplexed, for to
Him the extraordinary does not exist at all. The merit of being able
to love only the extraordinary is therefore more like an accusation,
not against the extraordinary nor against love, but against the love
which can love only the extraordinary. Perfection in the object is not perfection in the love.
Erotic love is determined by the object; friendship is determined by
the object; only love of one’s neighbor is determined by love. Therefore
genuine love is recognizable by this, that its object is without any
of the more definite qualifications of difference, which means that
this love is recognizable only by love.
- Soren Kierkegaard, Works of Love, 1847
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