I Find The Selectivity Of Erotic Love

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.

It Is Love Rather Than Sexual Lust Or Unbridled Sexuality If, In Addition To The Need Or Want Involved, There Is Also Some Impulse To Give Pleasure To The Persons Thus Loved And Not Merely To Use Them For Our Own Selfish Pleasure.

A Good Book Deserves An Active Reading. The Activity Of Reading Does Not Stop With The Work Of Understanding What A Book Says. It Must Be Completed By The Work Of Criticism, The Work Of Judging. The Undemanding Reader Fails To Satisfy This Requirement, Probably Even More Than He Fails To Analyze And Interpret. He Not Only Makes No Effort To Understand; He Also Dismisses A Book Simply By Putting It Aside And Forgetting It. Worse Than Faintly Praising It, He Damns It By Giving It No Critical Consideration Whatever.

There Is No More Irritating Fellow Than The Man Who Tries To Settle An Argument About Communism, Or Justice, Or Liberty, By Quoting From Webster.

The Philosopher Ought Never To Try To Avoid The Duty Of Making Up His Mind.