The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
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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.Mortimer Adler
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.
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Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
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Love without conversation is impossible.
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Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
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We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.
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