The question of love from Tolstoy to Einstein

Life is love, and love is life. "This phrase I read years ago and it is by the Indian thinker Nisar Katta Maharaj." I stopped at it many times, and I ask: what is love? It is a question that writers and thinkers have been trying to solve, hitting their heads against the wall. Ovid, who appeared more than a thousand years ago, leaving justice and politics to dedicate himself to writing his encyclopedia "The Art of Love," tried to understand the secret of love. Through a poetic trilogy entirely dedicated to the concept of passion: "Laments of Love, The Science of Love, and The Cure of Love," we find that love, according to Ovid, is not just decoration of life as the philosopher Epicurus wrote, but it is all of life. For him, there is no complete life without love and the constant suffering of love. As for Socrates, he depicted love as a great demon, and his student Plato believed that the soul reaches goodness through love. Books often place us at the heart of the most famous love story linking two philosophers, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, as well as the great relationship between the German philosopher Heidegger and the philosopher Hannah Arendt. Heidegger saw that Arendt was spreading what he called emotional thinking in her writings, meaning she spoke of the moment of inspiration that Arendt represented in his life. It is love that both of them saw as the moment that beautified their lives. Heidegger believes that nothing leads to the heart of the world more than love. When passions swept over a sheikh like Tolstoy, he withdrew to write the epic of love in "Anna Karenina": "On the station platform, I saw his figure. Remarkable, what brought him here? I didn't know you were traveling. Why are you here?" I asked him, and he looked into her eyes and said: "You know I came because of your influence. I cannot avoid it."