Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
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Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.
Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.
Love without conversation is impossible.
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
We love even when our love is not requited.
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.
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