Robert C. Solomon
Robert C. Solomon
Robert C. Solomonwas an American professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth14 September 1942
CountryUnited States of America
falling-in-love love-is laughing
For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the prolongation of sexual desire but the shared lifelong cultivation of a romantic lightheartedness that softens conflicts and anxieties and focuses serious attention even as it undermines seriousness as such. It's hard to fall out of love so long as you're laughing together.
religious believe commitment
What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.
trust qualified conditional
Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited.
trust openness bounds
Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.
love-life thoughtful phrases
Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life.
trust possibility
Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.