The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is limited in… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
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… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
