Love without conversation is impossible.
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
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.
Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we 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.
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.
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.
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.
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
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.
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.
Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.
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.
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
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.
We love even when our love is not requited.
