"True freedom is impossible without a mind made……" — Mortimer Adler
"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."
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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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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
— Aristotle
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
— Karen Armstrong
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you…
— Russell Banks
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To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark…
— Roseanne Barr
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little…
— Bruce Barton
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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to…
— Bernard Baruch
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From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
— Dirk Benedict
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As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely…
— Annie Besant
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Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
— Theodor Adorno
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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage,…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
— Bjork
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