Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves
Interpretation
Love provides a deeper understanding of truth than mere information from those who hate.
This quote emphasizes the idea that to truly understand the essence of a situation or person, one should consult those who approach life with love rather than hatred. While information might be accessible from various sources, love offers a profound and insightful perspective that reveals the deeper truths of existence and human experience.
In practice
In a discussion about the importance of empathy in relationships.
The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather, he is ethically depraved, a criminal willing radical evil. And since it is radical evil that is manifest here, evil per se, forming the absolute negative pole of every value-system, kitsch will always be evil, not just kitsch in art, but kitsch in every value-system that is not an imitation system.
No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head
You need the living, loving heart of living, loving men and women to quicken other hearts, which can live too and love too, and, in their turn, will quicken others which are dying now.
From suffering I have learned this: that whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embraces the very same love which wounded her.
Prince Rhaegar loved his Lady Lyanna, and thousands died for it.
Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
Everything terrible is something that needs our love.
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