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Mortimer Adler has 89 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
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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…
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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
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Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or…
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It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also…
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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
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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…
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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator…
— Aristotle
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The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is…
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in…
— Camille Claudel
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are…
— Hans Bender
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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
— Mortimer Adler
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I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own…
— Julia Child
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can…
— Horace Mann
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Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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