“We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.”
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“Before we congratulate ourselves upon the absence of certain faults from our nation or society, we ought to ask ourselves why it is that these faults are absent. Are we without the fault because we have the opposite virtue? Or are we without the fault because we have the opposite fault?”
“And cranky old Jacques Derrida notwithstanding, we do love our dichotomies.”
“We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.”
“We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.”
“The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.”