"Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for……" — Mortimer Adler
"Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality."
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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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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is…
— Isaac Asimov
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
— Honore de Balzac
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind…
— Joseph Addison
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Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if…
— Ambrose Bierce
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
— Mel Brooks
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The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
— Herb Caen
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
— Woody Allen
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When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…
— H. L. Mencken
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