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Good Quotes by Mortimer Adler
- We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned…
- In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade.…
- The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the…
- 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,…
- ....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about…
- A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must…
- Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
- In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through…
- In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get…
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