Mortimer Adler

I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this,…

— Mortimer Adler

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also…

— Mortimer Adler

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively…

— Mortimer Adler

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits…

— Mortimer Adler

There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is…

— Mortimer Adler

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

— Mortimer Adler

Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever…

— Mortimer Adler

I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith

— Mortimer Adler

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into…

— Mortimer Adler

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

— Mortimer Adler

Being influential is not the mark of a great book.

— Mortimer Adler

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them…

— Mortimer Adler

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

— Mortimer Adler

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.

— Mortimer Adler

I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand…

— Mortimer Adler

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

— Mortimer Adler

We wish the joy of love, the joy of companionship, of being in the company of, in the presence of the person…

— Mortimer Adler

Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do;…

— Mortimer Adler

All genuine learning is active, not passive.

— Mortimer Adler

In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of…

— Mortimer Adler

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six…

— Mortimer Adler

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.

— Mortimer Adler

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

— Mortimer Adler

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to…

— Mortimer Adler

Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we…

— Mortimer Adler