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Mortimer Adler Quotes
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Being influential is not the mark of a great book (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Philosophy is everybody’s business (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Reading is a basic tool in the living of the good life (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Sometimes it feels like I’m thinking against the wind (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
We love even when our love is not requited (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
All genuine learning is active, not passive (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself the trouble of thinking by asking him what he means. If, however, you ask a book a question, you must answer it yourself. In this respect a book is like nature or the world. When you question it, it answers you only to the extent that you do the work of thinking an analysis yourself (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone’s mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn’t contain a single idea (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us - but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice. And begging or pleading for love (Mortimer Adler Quotes)