The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
From Mortimer Adler
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.
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.
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
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.
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
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