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Mortimer Adler [1902-2001] American

Mortimer Jerome Adler was an American philosopher, educator, and popular author. As a philosopher he worked within the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions. He lived for long stretches in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, and San Mateo, California.

Love, Friendship, Alone, Faith, Freedom, Happiness, Learning, Men, Relationship

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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.	Love	101
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.		102
We love even when our love is not requited.	Love	103
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.	Men	104
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.		105
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.	Love	106
Love without conversation is impossible.	Love	107
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.		108
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.		109
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.		110
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.		111
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.		112
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.	Friendship	113
Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.	Relationship	114
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.	Love	115
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.	Alone	116
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.		117
Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.	Friendship	118
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.	Friendship	119
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.		120
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.		121
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.		122
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.	Freedom	123
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.		124
Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.		125
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.	Faith	126
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.	Learning	201
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.	Happiness	202
Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.		203
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.		204
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.		205
Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.		206
Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.		207
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.		208
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.		209
The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.		210
An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.		211
Idling is important. Most people don't know how. They're afraid of it. This explains why they turn on the television set or pick up the newspaper. They think they have to be doing something.		212
Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.		213
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.		214
Being influential is not the mark of a great book.		215
In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of subterranean conscious.		216
I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.		217

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