To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
This then is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Communication is a continual balancing act juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world we have to act in concert with others but to survive as ourselves rather than simply as cogs in a wheel we have to act alone.
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom whole worlds apart who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
Love with very young people is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power knowledge and sexuality since the classical age it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
There are few things that we so unwillingly give up even in advanced age as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.