American - Philosopher | December 28, 1902 - June 28, 2001
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.
Mortimer Adler
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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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Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
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Idling is important. Most people don't know how. They're afraid of it. This explains why they turn on the television set or pick up the newspaper. They think they have to be doing something.
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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
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It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
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Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
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Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.
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Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.
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Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
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One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
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Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
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