~CS Lewis~
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. … It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value.
We do not disparage silver by distinguishing it from gold.
“If there were an invisible cat in that chair the chair would look empty; but the chair does look empty; therefore there is an invisible cat in it.”
The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, “What? You too? I thought I was the only one.”
The man who agrees with us that some question, little regarded by others, is of great importance, can be our Friend. He need not agree with us about the answer.
[Friendship] has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
~The Four Loves