Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?

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

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.

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

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

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.

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.