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Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
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.
Books are absent teachers.
Philosophy is everybody's business.
Love without conversation is impossible.
We love even when our love is not requited.
All genuine learning is active, not passive.
Being influential is not the mark of a great book.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.
Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.
It's not how many books you get through, it's how many books get through you.
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.
Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.
To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.
Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.
The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.
Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.
Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
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.
More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.
One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.
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.
The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.
The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.
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.
