One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.

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

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

Emancipation of human labor from economic servitude and exploitation, i.e., from organizations of production in which the conditions of work are determined by a master class who own the means of production, and in which the fruits of work are alienated from workers to the benefit of masters.