For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the prolongation of sexual desire but the share…

- Robert C. Solomon

Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and m…

- Robert C. Solomon

Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited.

- Robert C. Solomon

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

- Robert C. Solomon

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

- Robert C. Solomon

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

- Robert C. Solomon

Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.

- Robert C. Solomon

Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life.

- Robert C. Solomon

What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. …

- Robert C. Solomon