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Way 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.
- I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is…
- 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.…
- Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of…
- The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.
- The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and…
- The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.
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