Adjectives Quote by Mortimer Adler

“In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.”

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There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is limited in ways that the mind is not. One sign of this is that the body does not continue indefinitely to grow in strength and develop in skill and grace. By the time most people are thirty years…

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Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on…

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I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith

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The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.

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Being influential is not the mark of a great book.

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The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from…

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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will…

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