Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.
Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.
We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts.
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.
If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
Kein Mensch, der in Furcht oder Sorge oder Chaos lebt, ist frei, aber wer sich von Sorgen, Furcht und Chaos befreit, wird dadurch auch aus der Sklaverei befreit.
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
You only have to doze a moment, and all is lost. For ruin and salvation both have their source inside you.
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
