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Rather Quotes by Mortimer Adler
- It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to…
- When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There…
- 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…
- Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.
- I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is…
- The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular…
- 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.…
- In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through…
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- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott