Love Quote by George Weinberg

Against the tired suspicion that romance is just a rerun, Weinberg insists on a stubborn fact of human perception: love is not a genre, it is an event. The line is deceptively simple, but it’s doing real psychological work. It pushes back on the modern cynicism that treats intimacy as derivative content - that because billions have done it, your feelings must be secondhand. Weinberg reframes love as something created at the point of contact between two particular nervous systems, two biographies, two sets of needs and defenses. Even if the script looks familiar from the outside, the experience is irreducibly new from the inside.

The subtext is also a quiet argument against shame. Weinberg, a psychologist who helped coin and popularize the term "homophobia", spent his career contesting cultural narratives that delegitimized certain loves as imitation, pathology, or trend. In that context, "original" reads less like a Valentine’s caption and more like a demand for epistemic respect: your attachment is not counterfeit because it doesn’t match the sanctioned template, and it doesn’t become less real because others have felt something adjacent.

There’s a second edge to it, too: originality isn’t novelty. Weinberg isn’t claiming you’ve invented love; he’s claiming love invents you in the moment. The quote works because it flatters without lying, granting people dignity without pretending they’re unprecedented. It’s a secular blessing for anyone who’s ever worried their heart is late to the party.