Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
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The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.Mortimer Adler
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
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Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.
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One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
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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.
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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.
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