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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)
An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture. (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Reading is a basic tool in the living of the good life (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God’s love and the love of God (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
If your friend wishes to read your ‘Plutarch’s Lives,’ ‘Shakespeare,’ or ‘The Federalist Papers,’ tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also. (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. (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)
Education is the sum total of one’s experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives. (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God’s love and the love of God. (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question. (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Political democracy cannot flourish under all economic conditions. Democracy requires an economic system which supports the political ideals of liberty and equality for all. Men cannot exercise freedom in the political sphere when they are deprived of it in the economic sphere (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
First, an angel is spiritually present at whatever place in physical space happens to be occupied by the body on which it acts. It can be present at that place without leaving Heaven which is its spiritual residence (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
All genuine learning is active, not passive (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)
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality (Mortimer Adler Quotes)