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" An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture. "
Own
Educated
Life
" Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship. "
Her
Friendship
Child
" Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself. "
Too Much
Yourself
Others
" Being influential is not the mark of a great book. "
Mark
Influential
Being
" Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. "
Friendship
Desires
Sexual
" Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful. "
Sexual
Truly
Love
" Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. "
Men
Rule
Other
" 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. "
View
Core
Instinct
" Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. "
Activity
Friendship
Leisure
" 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. "
Doing
Important
Know
" 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. "
Woman
Man
Love
" 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. "
Lust
Wrong
Pleasure
" 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. "
Book
Yourself
You
" In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. "
Names
Kinds
English
" 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. "
Things
You
Your
" 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. "
Good
Point
You
" 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. "
Lust
Love
Loved
" 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. "
Wonder
Love Is
Love
" Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure. "
Leisure
Noun
Nor
" Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. "
Generous
Without
Sense
" 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. "
Giving
True
True Love
" Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality. "
Itself
Immortality
Wishes
" Love without conversation is impossible. "
Conversation
Impossible
Without
" Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. "
Honorable
Value
Three
" Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. "
Live
Ants
Like
" One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union. "
Union
Image
Creation
" 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. "
Problems
Faith
First
" The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God. "
Christian
Belief
God
" Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. "
Love
Philosophers
Found
" The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind. "
Try
Up
Never
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