Does LOVING require THINKING?

Question

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is it possible to love & be wise?

Answer 1

I leave you with the following famous quotes - you decide if it's possible to love and be wise.


Albert Einstein:

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

"How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"

"You can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it."

" When I was young all I thought about was love, but in my old age, I love nothing more than to think."



Bertrand Russell:

Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living.


Blaise Pascal:

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of."


Francis David:

"We need not think alike to love alike."


Ralph Waldo Emerson:

"Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble."


Saint Francis de Sales:

"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves."


Willa Cather:

"Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody."

Answer 2

The wise do love, in the truest sense of the word. So your answer would be dependent on your definition of love. If you are talking about romantic love, most people do not even know what that really is anymore. They talk of falling in love when really they have fallen in lust, & 8 weeks after the relationship has started & the newness has worn off, they sit across from each other not knowing how to talk because their relationship was based on anything but talking! True love is not blind & it is not contingent on you returning that love. It may be what I want, but real love gives much & asks little. This is true if it is love of child or love of spouse. I think all love, but the wise love more truly with less expectations. And finally, love is a decision. There is a very good book titled "The Art Of Loving" by Eric Fromm. Great Read! Thanks for a great Question as usual.

Answer 3

I think I really intense love wouldn't really require any thought.
Sure, your brain ins't shut off. You can still be smart and understand the world around you. But you didn't have to ponder your way into love. It just happened. Love is an emotion, and emotions are reactions to your environment, not your own thinking.

But you can be in love and wise at the same time, but maybe not wise about the love you are in :) But you can be wise about other things.

But then it depends what kind of love we're talking about....But that can be for another discussion.

Answer 4

Yes, in my opinion, i really do think that loving requires thinking, because i know that, i for one, just cant understand a whole bunch of confused feelings without taking some time to really think about them and why i feel them and for who i feel them and if this is really love....you have to ask yourself those questions first to know if you´re really in love and so yes, loving does require thinking.

I know love can be very confusing at the start and...well i wouldnt know but maybe even later on in life,... maybe its just one of those eternal inexplicable mysteries that keep amazing us throughout life, however yes i think its very possible to love and be wise at the same time. Love is another lesson of life, and with every lesson you become wiser.

Answer 5

It is possible to love and be wise, but much harder to be wise in love. Love doesn't require thinking, but it does require being and doing. Love is the state of mind that inspires us to balance our selves and our needs against the forces of the universe and finally realize that someone or something else is just as important as we are. Through this action, our self image gains perspective as we let another in, opening up the conduits of our soul to let that river in and out and through.

Answer 6

I personally believe the two of them are intertwined. That is why when you are married the Pastor says What God has Joined together let NO MAN put Asunder. If it were not for God we would not be here to Theologically theorize the difference. That is my opinion. I personally believe you need the Lord to continue to Bless your relationship to stay in Love. Because let's face it we have all woken up and looked at our Partner at least once and said I do not know why I married this person all they do is complain ***** Moan Cheat etc... But then the Lord hears you and reminds you of the Vow you professed to him and he then makes you realize why you are with this person. Love 1st Corinthians Chapter 13 says Faith Hope and Love the Greatest of these is Love. We have taken Religion out of Government and the Classroom and made it to where nobody wants to even discuss it anymore and now we want to take it out of Love too. If it were not for God we would not have Love.

Answer 7

no it requires simply feeling. But it is possible to love and be wise, at least the way i look at it.

But loving someone isnt something that you choose to do. its something that happens and that you cant control. whether its the love of a significant other or the love of your child.

Answer 8

I believe that Loving is the wisest thing that a human can do. Upon seeing the question revised; Loving, requiring thinking... We think with our brain,which is supplied with blood pumped thru our hearts,in that case, yes,loving would require thinking, BUT...It is wisdom that provides the common sense, and, perseverance to be successful at loving. As for any one thing to be the soul (excuse the pun) of loving...it may be only that,... the soul

Answer 9

I think being able to love requires that you exists and have the ability to reason. Inorder to show love you have to act inorder to act you have to think its that simple... IMO everything in this universe is a thinking thing :)

Is it possible o love & be wise? What are you a fool? JK lol

Answer 10

Absolutely. People say love is blind, but you can actually prevent yourself from getting blinded. Love doesn't mean stop using your brain! You have many decisions to make when in love as well and you obviously have to think for that. Sometimes by not thinking and following that love blindly, you might be doing more harm to this relationship than you think; what will happen when you come back to your senses?! :-)
Thank you!

Answer 11

I certainly believe so. Of course it doesn't require thought to fall passionately in love (or lust). But really loving, and learning which is essential to the development and growth of love, requires thought, reflection, communication. I certainly think it's a vital part of growing wiser, which feeds back into love itself. Passion without it, I think is merely possession, and not love at all.