"Theories of love are found in the works……" — Mortimer Adler
"Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians."
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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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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best…
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is…
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the…
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
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