All Mortimer Adler Quotes
- 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… Already Possess
- Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of… Able
- 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
- Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. Activity
- More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question. Action
- Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful. Erotic
- 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,… All
- 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… Active
- Philosophy is everybody's business. Business
- All genuine learning is active, not passive. Active
- Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality. Immortality
- Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love. Joy
- 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… Beyond
- I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith Blind
- 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… Acts
- The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time. All
- 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… Been
- 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… Agree
- True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline. Discipline
- Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature. Beginning