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

I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith

... The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as much prepared to have his own mind changed as seek to change the mind of another ... No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught.

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

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

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.