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The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody’s head all of the time (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree? (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
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 (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us the impression that our minds are active, because we are required to react to stimuli from the outside. But the power of those external stimuli to keep us going is limited. They are like drugs. We grow used to them, and we continuously need more and more of them. Eventually, they have little or no effect. Then, if we lack resources within ourselves, we cease to grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually. And we we cease to grow, we begin to die (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice (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)
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must be completed by the work of criticism, the work of judging. The undemanding reader fails to satisfy this requirement, probably even more than he fails to analyze and interpret. He not only makes no effort to understand; he also dismisses a book simply by putting it aside and forgetting it. Worse than faintly praising it, he damns it by giving it no critical consideration whatever (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
... The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as much prepared to have his own mind changed as seek to change the mind of another... No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not improve as a reader if all you read are books that are well within your capacity. You must tackle books that are beyond you, or, as we have said, books that are over your head. Only books of that sort will make you stretch your mind. And unless you stretch, you will not learn (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error (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)
If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding. It’s the hard books that count. Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you might find diamonds (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. Propaganda taken in that way is like a drug you do not know you are swallowing. The effect is mysterious; you do not know afterwards why you feel or think the way you do (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as good or bad, as better or worse, derives from our conception of the good life for man on earth, and from our conviction that, given certain external conditions, it is possible for men to make good lives for themselves by their own efforts (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher (Mortimer Adler Quotes)
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter (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)
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 (Mortimer Adler Quotes)