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Mortimer Adler has 89 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
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Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others…
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In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom.…
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The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as…
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Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again…
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