In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.
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.
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.
Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.
We love even when our love is not requited.
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
