Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

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.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

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.

Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do; if not, you probably should not be bothering with his book. But understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher, once he understands what the teacher is saying. Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

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.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice