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.

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.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.