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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We love even when our love is not requited.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love without conversation is impossible.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.
- Concerned
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Desires
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Image
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
- Nov 07, 2020
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being influential is not the mark of a great book.
- Nov 07, 2020
Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020