Someone who is a hopeless romantic often has high standards, and their conception of love is often far-fetched, like the clichéd love movies.
This conception of love as a primordial emotion is something like Descartes' view in Passions of the Soul, §79: "Love is an emotion of the soul caused by a movement of the spirits, which impells the soul to join itself willingly [de volonté] to objects that appear to be agreeable to it".
More interesting, perhaps, than an argument about the merits and demerits of each conception of love is the simple fact that, if literature is any indication, men and women so often conceive of love differently, and that, even in the face of so much social change over the past two centuries, this difference is still very much in evidence.
This compact collection is divided into four sections: "Birth," "Gestation," "Conception," and "Love".
The conception of love that he extolled was part of a refined and noble sense of life.
Such a woman is never far from the necessity to cook or abstain from food, to perform an unselfish act, to exercise tolerance and self-sacrifice in relationships that define the core of our cultural conception of love.
● To maintain any thread in the novel there must be a view of the world behind it & the most important single item under this view of world is conception of love — divine, natural, & perverted.
● ● To maintain any thread in the novel there must be a view of the world behind it & the most important single item under this view of world is conception of love — divine, natural, & perverted.
"It is not the least of Mr Coward's achievements," he wrote, "that he has... disguised the grimness of his play and that his conception of love is really desolating".
Donald G. McNeil Jr. (NYT) VATICAN: ROLE OF MARRIAGE -- The Vatican criticized efforts to give partners, heterosexual and gay, the same legal rights as married couples, calling such arrangements "a conception of love detached from any responsibility".
