"In English we must use adjectives to distinguish……" — Mortimer Adler
"In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names."
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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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More Adjectives Quotes
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To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at…
— Gregory Bateson
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I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this…
— Alison Brie
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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up,…
— Maya Angelou
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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a…
— Hal Borland
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
— Clifton Fadiman
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what…
— Larry McMurtry
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Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give…
— Guy de Maupassant
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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it.…
— Mark Twain
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Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat…
— Anton Chekhov
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Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.
— Alain Ducasse
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