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From Quotes by Mortimer Adler
- Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
- If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading…
- More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.
- 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,…
- 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…
- Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
- Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us…
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