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1 " Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire. "
― Hannah Arendt , Love and Saint Augustine
2 " It is because we know happiness that we want to be happy, and since nothing is more certain than our wanting to be happy (beatum esse velle), our notion of happiness guides us in determining the respective goods that then became objects of our desires. "
3 " Fearlessness is what love seeks… Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no longer be shaken by events expected of the future… Hence the only valid tense is the present, the Now. "
4 " Who will hold [the heart], and fix it so that it may stand still for a little while and catch for a moment the splendor of eternity which stands still forever, and compare this with temporal moments that never stand still, and see that it is incomparable . . . but that all this while in the eternal, nothing passes but the whole is present.31 "
5 " For we [B:033139] call ‘world’ not only this fabric which God made, heaven and earth . . . but the inhabitants of the world are also called ‘the world.’ . . . Especially all lovers of the world are called the world.”35 "
6 " Can life be said to exist at all? "
