American - Philosopher | December 28, 1902 - June 28, 2001
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
Mortimer Adler
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In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of subterranean conscious.
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Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
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There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.
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One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.
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The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
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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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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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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
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Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.
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I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.
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I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.
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