By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 02:03:50 +0000

Hi Al, I appreciate the third link you have listed – a reference to Avatar’s quote “I see you”. Since seeing the movie, I have held onto that saying as something very profound (and actually had thought of adding it to this blog entry). It’s another way of saying “I love you”, but with a freshness which makes it all seem more applicable.

Thanks for adding to the conversation!

Also, I have added a reference to the (probable) origin of my quote “To see is to love”.

By: Al Rempel

Al Rempel — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 23:53:05 +0000

maybe not origin, but on straight Google (in quotes) on “to see is to love” I came up with this comment on Don Juan (!), in a 1976 book entitled “Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism” by David L. Norton:

https://books.google.ca/books?id=w2W1rlJu3AcC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=%E2%80%9CTo+see+is+to+love%E2%80%9D&source=bl&ots=HTl9f4B1M_&sig=yXewk7M8as8N2Ql4kTKQPLtdMtc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rBSvVM6iDYeiyAT734HwBw&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9CTo%20see%20is%20to%20love%E2%80%9D&f=false

also in this 1808 book, “Striking Likenesses; or, The Votaries of .Fashion” by Louisa Sidney Stanhope:
https://books.google.ca/books?id=0a8BAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA83&lpg=PA83&dq=%E2%80%9CTo+see+is+to+love%E2%80%9D&source=bl&ots=qag25AJP9M&sig=VTi-Smt6wER3BWsDoka-DPxfhTo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rBSvVM6iDYeiyAT734HwBw&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9CTo%20see%20is%20to%20love%E2%80%9D&f=false

this one seems to attribute it to Jesus, although I have not discovered where in New Testament something along this line may be:
http://themainblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/unpacking-%E2%80%9Ci-see-you%E2%80%9D/

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