Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If it were wholly comprehensible, then it would just be another philosophy.

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

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

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.