"An educated person is one who, through the……" — Mortimer Adler
"An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture."
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87 Quotes by Mortimer Adler
Mortimer Adler has 87 quotes on this site.
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Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically…
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One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of…
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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other.…
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Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
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It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there…
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When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to…
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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
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We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we…
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You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things…
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If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the…
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Love without conversation is impossible.
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Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
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Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body)…
— George Washington
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Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself;…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part…
— Bertrand Russell
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The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their…
— Nadia Boulanger
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I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.
— Anton Yelchin
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Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you…
— Camilla Gibb
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An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between…
— Wilfred Trotter
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Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one…
— Sri Yukteswar Giri
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Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these…
— Jeremy Silman
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