Quotes of Mortimer Adler - somelinesforyou

“ The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. ”

- 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. ”

- 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. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ Love without conversation is impossible. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ 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. ”

- 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. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. ”

- 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. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live. ”

- Mortimer Adler
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