Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
Mortimer Adler
friendship example
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
friendship
Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.
Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
wishes
Love without conversation is impossible.
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.
belief
Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.
work
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.
Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
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