People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love)
I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been.
He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain.
That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.
Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.
Our love is principle, and has its root In reason, is judicious, manly, free.
But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence
A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.
Real love" - "This kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth.
