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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. "

" Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God. "

" Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful. "

" 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. "

" Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. "

" Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. "

" We love even when our love is not requited. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. "

Mortimer Adler

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" Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. "

" Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. "

" 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. "

" One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union. "

" 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. "

" Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure. "

" Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure. "

" 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. "

" Love without conversation is impossible. "