There is no writer or poet in the world who would not devote the best lines of his works to the highest feeling on earth - love. From Schiller with his sacramental phrase, where love rules the world on a par with hunger, to E. Yevtushenko with his “Spell”.
The author of the book “Five Languages of Love” Harry Chapman states that this is the main word of each language.
If “Thoughts of the Wise on Love” were tried to be published separately, it is difficult to imagine the number of volumes of this publication. This theme especially inspired poets of all time.
Of course, not only representatives of the literary genre wrote about love . Physicists, theologians, and psychoanalysts have spoken out about this. Many would like to get a clear wording, and Count Cagliostro, as you know, was not averse to deducing the formula.
Love in human life
But love, according to the testimony of the “wise and great,” is a particle of God in every person, his divine principle, which is not subject to either specificity or formulas. One and only. Maybe some feelings can be compared with her in strength, others in beauty, in ability to sacrifice for his sake, but only love can combine all this into one. A. France spoke about the divine essence of love, which was originally inherent in man. L. Tolstoy spoke about the omnipotence of love, claiming that only she could destroy death and turn a meaningless, miserable life into meaningful happiness. This is echoed even by Dumbledore at the end of the first Harry Potter series. Thoughts of wise people about love feed not one generation with their depth, experience and strength.
Without love there cannot be life itself. According to A. Herzen, "without her, there is no life, and it cannot be." About this is the reckless phrase of E. Piaf, who claimed that if she does not die of love, then she is ready to "die" of melancholy and hopelessness.
Thoughts of the wise about love can answer the question about the meaning of human life in general. Confucius discusses the impossibility of life without love, which is the beginning and end of human existence.
About the divine essence of love says M. Tsvetaeva. She insists that the divine essence of man can only be determined by the power of love that he is capable of.
Philosopher V. Soloviev writes that love personifies only good. About the height of this feeling, that it cannot bring suffering, but brings its sense of ownership, writes Saint-Exupery.
Millions of words have been said about love, but each new generation adds to its words its enthusiasm, worship, its sacrifice, expressed in words. And this does not bother at all, because love really rules the world.
Not all people are able to put words on their feelings, and, reading the thoughts of the wise about love, they always find responses to their experiences. Such is the power of the word of the sages.
Thoughts, statements about love can help a person understand himself, and will help convey feelings to the object of adoration.
The experience of the sages to help lovers around the world
The more talented the author, the more beautiful his statements about love. About what power of feeling the phrase of B. Shaw speaks: “I lived for two days without seeing you, and by that I proved that I can endure everything.” And the statement of I. Turgenev about the day when he did not see the eyes of Polina Viardot, as about a lost day, sounds very beautiful.
Therefore, when a person is about to be torn apart by feelings that have flowed over him, and there is no way to express them, wise thoughts about love in printed form must be at hand, even an aimless acquaintance with which will decorate life and exalt life.