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.
A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being.
And, if you love me, as I think you do, let's kiss and part, for we have much to do
My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.
Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love - I don't think there's any influence on my life that compares with love.
I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, βLove one another as I have loved you.β Ask yourself βHow has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?β Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.
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