Philosophy Is Everybody's Business.

The Only Standard We Have For Judging All Of Our Social, Economic, And Political Institutions And Arrangements As Just Or Unjust, As Good Or Bad, As Better Or Worse, Derives From Our Conception Of The Good Life For Man On Earth, And From Our Conviction That, Given Certain External Conditions, It Is Possible For Men To Make Good Lives For Themselves By Their Own Efforts.

Love Wishes To Perpetuate Itself. Love Wishes For Immortality.

I Wonder If Most People Ever Ask Themselves Why Love Is Connected With Reproduction. And If They Do Ask Themselves About This, I Wonder What Answer They Give.

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.

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.