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.

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.

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

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

I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith

In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade. The pathos is his ability to touch feelings to move people emotionally. The logos is his ability to give solid reasons for an action, to move people intellectually.

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.