Hermann Hesse on philosophy

Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Love does not entreat; or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963

• Forgiveness
• Love
• Theology

Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book III, Chapter 10, “Hope”

• Theology