"Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It……" — Mortimer Adler
"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. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth."
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Mortimer Adler
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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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