There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.

The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.

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

Philosophy is everybody's business.

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

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.

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.