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

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

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.