The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
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.
We love even when our love is not requited.
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.
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.
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
Love without conversation is impossible.
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.
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.
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.
Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.
Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.
I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.
I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.
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.
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.
