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Mortimer Adler has 89 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to…
• The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
• Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or…
• It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also…
• Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
• We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively…
• Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
• Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

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