"We are selfish when we are exclusively or……" — Mortimer Adler
"We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others."
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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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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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Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
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The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic…
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Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed…
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A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various…
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Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever…
— Ayn Rand
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The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish,…
— Richard J. Foster
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Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always…
— Dian Fossey
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Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious…
— Karl Rahner
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If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --
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There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered,…
— Roger N. Walsh
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The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
— Max Beerbohm
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The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who…
— Robert J. Havighurst
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