To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual, in so far as it is divorced from love for man, can refer only to the superficial and to the accidental; of necessity it remains shallow.
Source:Chapter III. Human Nature and Character, Section 2. Personality, b. Character, (3) The Productive Orientation, (b) Productive Love and Thinking, Page 101
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