I'm reading more of Popper (his 'intellectual autobiography' and The Poverty of Historicism), and in my perusal of his autobionic, I read this:
"One often hears it said nowadays that children are cruel by nature. I do not believe it. I was, as a child, what Americans might call a "softy", and compassion is one of the strongest emotions I remember. It was the main component of my first experience of falling in love, which happened when I was four or five years old. I was taken to a kindergarten, and there was a beautiful little girl who was blind. My heart was torn, both by the charm of her smile and by the tragedy of her blindness. It was love at first sight. I have never forgotten her, though I saw her only once, and only for an hour or two. I was not sent to the kindergarten again; perhaps my mother noticed how much I was upset."
That just sounds so damn adorable.
EDIT: Why the fuck is using quote tags prohibited? Some silly shit, that is.