Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves. - Jacques Maritain

For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least phenomenalizable sense of this word.

The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.

It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"… ...Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist... ...she certainly did not envelop him in her love.