Amount Quote by Mortimer Adler

I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder…

— Mortimer Adler

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more…

— 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…

— Mortimer Adler

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also…

— Mortimer Adler

There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is limited in…

— Mortimer Adler

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

— Mortimer Adler

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

— Mortimer Adler

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

— Mortimer Adler

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind…

— Mortimer Adler

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

— Mortimer Adler

Being influential is not the mark of a great book.

— Mortimer Adler

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way…

— Mortimer Adler