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

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

" 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. "

" An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. "

" The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love. "

" 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. "

" Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. "

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

" Being influential is not the mark of a great book. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. "