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Mortimer Adler has 89 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why…
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Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
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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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When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate…
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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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Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
— Mortimer Adler
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We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the…
— Andrea Corr
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We feed upon each other's mouths and minds like ants with social stomachs.
— Weston La Barre
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Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.
— Henry David Thoreau
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
— Bela Lugosi
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Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!
— Charlie Flynn
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Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These…
— Alberto Santos-Dumont
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We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.
— Kanye West
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