"There are genuine mysteries in the world that……" — Mortimer Adler
"There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception."
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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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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a…
— Jane Austen
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One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
— Georges Bernanos
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
— Josh Billings
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Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those…
— David Bohm
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Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
— Sissela Bok
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While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
— Sissela Bok
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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority,…
— Giordano Bruno
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The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And…
— Herman Cain
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I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
— Taylor Caldwell
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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly…
— Elias Canetti
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In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part,…
— Graydon Carter
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