Quote

Love without conversation is impossible.

Mortimer Adler

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mortimer Adler
Age: 98 †
Born: 1902
Born: December 28
Died: 2001
Died: June 28
Philosopher
Teacher
University Teacher
Writer
New York City
New York
Mortimer J. Adler
Mortimer Adler
Insomnia
Conversation
Impossible
Without
Love

More quotes by Mortimer Adler

Image
To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.
Mortimer Adler
Image
Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
Mortimer Adler
Image
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.
Mortimer Adler
Image
Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.
Mortimer Adler
Image
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 except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.
Mortimer Adler
Image
All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.
Mortimer Adler
Image
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
Image
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
Mortimer Adler
Image
Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.
Mortimer Adler
Image
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice
Mortimer Adler
Image
True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
Mortimer Adler
Image
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
Image
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.
Mortimer Adler
Image
Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.
Mortimer Adler
Image
The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.
Mortimer Adler
Image
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
Mortimer Adler
Image
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.
Mortimer Adler
Image
Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.
Mortimer Adler
Image
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
Mortimer Adler
Image
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.
Mortimer Adler