Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

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

I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe. They may even wish not to have their beliefs disturbed by thought.

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.

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

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 wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.