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Only Quotes by Mortimer Adler
- 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…
- 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 best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious.…
- 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,…
- Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate…
- If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself…
- 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…
- If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not improve as a…
- Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.
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