In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies.

Emancipation of human labor from economic servitude and exploitation, i.e., from organizations of production in which the conditions of work are determined by a master class who own the means of production, and in which the fruits of work are alienated from workers to the benefit of masters.

If we consider men and women generally, and apart from their professions or occupations, there is only one situation I can think of in which they almost pull themselves up by their bootstraps, making an effort to read better than they usually do. When they are in love and are reading a love letter, they read for all they are worth.

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

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.

More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.