The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have.
Interpretation
True love is difficult to define for those who haven't felt it, yet those who have experienced it find no need for a definition.
This quote by Isaac Asimov highlights the complexity and depth of true love. It suggests that love is an experience that transcends words and definitions; for those who have never experienced it, they may struggle to understand its essence, whereas those who have felt it know its value and significance without needing to articulate it into a definition.
In practice
In a romantic speech to express the depth of oneβs feelings.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.
Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.
Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap
Love is the victor in every case. Love breaks down the iron bars of thought, and sets the captive free.
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware.
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