Mortimer J. Adler Quotes

• True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

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• Books are absent teachers

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• The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  Topics in Justice, Love

  Tags in World, Care, Difference

• We love even when our love is not requited.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  Tags in Acknowledge, Heart, Follow, Make

• Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

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• Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.

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  Topics in Joy, Love

  Tags in Perfect, Person

• 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.

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  Tags in Different, Human

• 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.

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  Tags in Situation, Women, Reading, Mankind, Men

• Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

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• The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn’t contain a single idea.

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  Tags in Telephone, Facts, Single

• The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

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  Tags in Ought, Philosopher, Avoid

• The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God’s love and the love of God.

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  Topics in Belief, God, Love

  Tags in World, Common

• One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

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  Tags in Christianity, Presidency, Faith, Problems, American

• One of the aims of s*x*al union is procreation – the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

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  Tags in Union, Reproduction

• Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

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  Tags in Excellent, Three, Admirable, Sources, Honorable, Useful, Pleasant

• Love without conversation is impossible.

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  Tags in Impossible, Conversation

Mortimer J. Adler (40)

Birth:	28th December, 1902
Death:	28th June, 2001
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Educator, Philosopher

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