There are many who will deem the philosophic attitude a callous one. This is partly because they misunderstand it and partly because they identify themselves too strongly with their emotional nature. It is inevitable that, with the growth in philosophic understanding and practice, the affections grow larger and deeper too, while their visible demonstration becomes calmer and more equable. Since philosophy is more concerned with realities than with appearances, more concerned with being than with seeming, merely conventional responses in emotional speech and expected action mean less to its practitioner than the silent inward existence of love. He does not feel any need to give continual evidence of what he feels in order to reassure the other person, who unconsciously fears that love may pass away at any time. Nor does he want to take such possession of the other as never to allow her to leave his side, always holding her in a narrow, confining domesticity.
-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 2 : Living in The World > # 450
