Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
Idling is important. Most people don't know how. They're afraid of it. This explains why they turn on the television set or pick up the newspaper. They think they have to be doing something.
In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of subterranean conscious.
Or, you say that this business of marking books is going to slow up your reading. It probably will. That's one of the reasons for doing it. Most of us have been taken in by the notion that speed of reading is a measure of our intelligence. There is n...
We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
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.
Being influential is not the mark of a great book.
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.
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.
Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.
An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.