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.

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.

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 wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

Philosophy is everybody's business.

Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.

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.