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One Quotes by Mortimer Adler
- One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
- If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than…
- One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the…
- 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…
- We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts…
- The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.
- Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our…
- ... The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as…
- The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.
- Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased.…
- An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.
- Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle