Status Updates From Four Loves

we had better begin at the bottom, with mere likings; and since to "like" anything means to take some sort of pleasure m it, we must begin with pleasure. 2/2

[..] Nearly all speakers, however pedantic
or however pious, talk every day about "loving" a
food, a game, or a pursuit. And in fact there is a continuity between our elementary likings for things and our loves for people. Since "the highest does not stand without the lowest" 1/2