Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
We are all neighbors. And we must love neighbors as ourselves.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know what it is you wish I could know.
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.