Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

Philosophy is everybody's business.

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

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.

We wish the joy of love, the joy of companionship, of being in the company of, in the presence of the person we love, of living a common life with that person, perhaps ultimately the joy of perfect union.