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Mortimer Adler

Love without conversation is impossible.
— Mortimer Adler conversation
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
— Mortimer Adler love
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
— Mortimer Adler men
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
— Mortimer Adler love
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
— Mortimer Adler self
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
— Mortimer Adler love
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 truth
We love even when our love is not requited.
— Mortimer Adler love
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.
— Mortimer Adler love
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
— Mortimer Adler purpose
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 love
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 self
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
— Mortimer Adler book
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 time
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
— Mortimer Adler books
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 love
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
— Mortimer Adler men
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
— Mortimer Adler end
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
— Mortimer Adler life
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 life
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
— Mortimer Adler value
Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
— Mortimer Adler love
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 love
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler love
Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
— Mortimer Adler love
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.
— Mortimer Adler purpose

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