How can this blood pumping organ, be associated with love?
2007-03-01 05:08:33 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Very clever question!
Best guess- because without the heart there is no life. If it is damaged, we live but we are wounded. If it stops temporarily, we are bewildered and scared. If it is repaired, we feel relief. If it is functioning at its fullest capacity, we feel joy and that anything is possible.
Much like love!
2007-03-01 05:25:29 · answer #1 · answered by gtravels 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The heart was once widely believed to be the seat of the human mind, the word heart is still used poetically to refer to the soul, and hearts are extremely common symbols representing love.
This sign commonly used to represent the heart has actually been around for thousands of years. It incorporates the symbols for fire/flight from the middle ages. The heart symbol also incorporates the symbol which represents togetherness. The heart symbol has a meaning amongst religions as well. Among Christians, it stands for charity and hope.
It's popularity most probably stems from the romantic view that early cultures had of the heart. The heart to them was not simply a mechanical pump but the center of all thought and emotion.
2007-03-01 05:27:32 · answer #2 · answered by aidan402 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no connection, but the idea was dreamed up by the Romans. Remember that ninty-nine percent of what is known now was unknown to them. All of life was ruled by omens and signs. They knew that when the heart stopped, everything stopped. I don't know how they associated it with love, but they did.
Also the Romans believed that an important vein ran from the third finger of the left hand directly to the heart. If a man put a ring on that finger of his lady, she was his.
The Romans worshiped the Goddess Juna the Goddess of happy marriages. That's why there are so many weddings in June. Even now.
2007-03-01 05:45:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the brain wouldn't seem as romantic! Imagine sending a valentine in the shape of a grey, wrinkled brain...Even though technically it's your mind that "feels" we associate thinking & reason with the brain & emotion & feeling with the heart. The heart of Valentine's Day cards isn't the blood pumping organ but the bubbly cartoon version, it is just meant to represent the figurative "heart" or soul, the seat of our emotions. I do think however that you feel love in your real heart to some degree. When I met my boyfriend my heart skipped a beat & it started to race whenever I saw him. When we quarrel & when he's away, I feel a pang in my chest. When he's with me & I'm holding him I feel a warm and calming sensation where my heart is...so maybe it's not all just sentimental nonsense. Maybe there is something to it...
2007-03-01 05:21:13 · answer #4 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The heart is the symbol of love because the heart gives and sustains life and at one time the heart was believed to have been where the soul came from as well as being the "Ruling center" of the body rather than the brain. Therefore love "ruled" the person...
2007-03-01 05:30:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is an emotion that was believed to come from the heart not the mind. Having said that, someone probably got the bright idea one day to put the picture of a heart on a card, letter, etc... in replace for the word love ( just a guess) & it caught on. Valentine's Day is not a holiday for love (I'm not sure how it came to be associated with Love) It was named after St.Valentine's death.
2007-03-01 05:32:13 · answer #6 · answered by Charly 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why people feel that they know or feel things in their heart is beyond me, but the heart has been considered the center of life, of being, of love, and happiness for centuries now. I coppied and pasted this from the link below:
Psychologists once maintained that emotions were purely mental expressions generated by the brain alone. We now know that this is not true — emotions have as much to do with the heart and body as they do with the brain. Of the bodily organs, the heart plays a particularly important role in our emotional experience. The experience of an emotion results from the brain, heart and body acting in concert.
2007-03-01 05:31:35 · answer #7 · answered by Wes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two reasons:
1. Our reaction to emotion is a quickening of the pulse, and we feel it in the area of our heart.
2. The symbol itself bears a striking similarity to the physical features that we find attractive. Notice that the symbol has it's own cleavage. Pick the chest or the rear end and you'll see a similar form.
2007-03-01 05:20:44 · answer #8 · answered by John S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree that this is a very clever question!
My guess: It may have something to do with the heart being the central organ of life. All life function stems from the heart, and without it, life ceases to exist.
Like the heart, love is much the same. We function directly/indirectly from this central force (love). It is love that circulates our life force and sustains us. Keeping in mind, that love comes from different sources.
The heart is the central organ that circulates and re-circulates our life-sustaining energy (blood) to our vital organs; connecting them and allowing them to perform their individual function, in one collective body. Much the same with love.
2007-03-01 06:04:13 · answer #9 · answered by Rain 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The heart as a symbol means the feeling center; it's all about feelings, desires, intentions, etc.
The Rush!0!
2007-03-01 12:22:17 · answer #10 · answered by Alex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋