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Which Quotes by Mortimer Adler
- You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let…
- In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
- 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…
- Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or…
- The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.
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