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Men Quotes by Mortimer Adler
- Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
- Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
- Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
- I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is…
- There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It…
- 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,…
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