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Life Quotes by Mortimer Adler
- 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,…
- Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
- The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.
- The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and…
- ....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…
- Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
- An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle