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Question:we have our own logic be it in love or not....


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I believe that a person in love is in world of his or her own, so yes they have a logic of their own. To be logical you must be illogical, to be illogical you must be logical. It depends where the audience is standing.

And who cares what others think when someone is in love. They are happy and that is all that matters. Logical or illogical it does not matter. I would rather live a life as Romeo just to be with Juliet once instead of live old and have no one worthy by my side.

uh no

u r right again, we all have our different logics and they keep changing and love changes everyone for the good. u ask cute questions twin fairy

"Love is a response to values. It is with a person's sense of life that one falls in love—with that essential sum, that fundamental stand or way of facing existence, which is the essence of a personality. One falls in love with the embodiment of the values that formed a person's character, which are reflected in his widest goals or smallest gestures, which create the style of his soul—the individual style of a unique, unrepeatable, irreplaceable consciousness. It is one's own sense of life that acts as the selector, and responds to what it recognizes as one's own basic values in the person of another. It is not a matter of professed convictions (though these are not irrelevant); it is a matter of much more profound, conscious and subconscious harmony.

"Many errors and tragic disillusionments are possible in this process of emotional recognition, since a sense of life, by itself, is not a reliable cognitive guide."
"Philosophy and Sense of Life," The Romantic Manifesto, 32.

The phrase "love is blind" subsumes those "errors and tragic disillusionments." Sometimes we don't wish to see those things in other people which will disillusion us, because the other person make us happy, or because we are proud to be seen with them (which means we think we gain self-esteem by being seen with someone--like having a "trophy wife.")

That is where the "illogic" of love come into play: when we are willing to overlook those things which will, in the end, destroy a love. Love is so spiritual an emotion that we know those things we overlook will destroy the love--in the end. But we illogically hope to find ways and means to get around or over them.

"[In The Fountainhead] the hero utters a line that has often been quoted by readers: "To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I.'"
"Playboy's Interview with Ayn Rand," March 1964.

Knowing how to say the "I" would be to acknowledge those faults in another that are illogical, and then to pass on the romance of the relationship--or accept them as things we cannot change, so long as they are willing to do the same with us.

It means that, instead of trying to gain self-esteem with a "trophy wife," we have enough respect for ourselves to know that we, ourselves, are a trophy to the other person, and to avoid those "errors and tragic disillusionments" we need to seek a love who sees us as complement to him or herself, as we ought to see them.

That is the "trophy of self-esteem" seeking an equal, and in that there is nothing at all illogical.