The religion of pure Love is the only real foundation of the lasting unity of all humanity. With such a religion alone life becomes a song of peace, progress, perfection, and the world a Kingdom of Heaven. The best description of the Being of God is Love. Love is the soul of all Nature, and the Divinity in Man. Love is the highest Good, the highest Truth and the highest Beauty, and it unites in itself the basic processes of the three normative sciences, ethics, logic, and aesthetics.
Love is the supreme virtue.
It is the mainspring of all other virtues. Our View of Virtue as Love Intellectualistic in ethics, Socrates conceives of virtue as knowledge. Seeking to improve upon the Socratic rational insight by introducing into it a volitional element, Aristotle conceives of virtue as the right-willing, the choice of the mean. Our view of virtue as Love includes, as integral to itself, the Socratic knowing, the Aristotelian willing, and exceeds and corrects them by a great comprehensiveness. An exclusive preoccupation with the art, the understanding, the advocacy and the achievement of the excellent in a merely cultural refinement, ruled out from the Hellenic ideal of character, the element of Love.