More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.

Love without conversation is impossible.

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.

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

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

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

If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself the trouble of thinking by asking him what he means. If, however, you ask a book a question, you must answer it yourself. In this respect a book is like nature or the world. When you question it, it answers you only to the extent that you do the work of thinking an analysis yourself.