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Mortimer Adler
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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
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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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All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.
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The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.
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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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Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
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I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe. They may even wish not to have their beliefs disturbed by thought.
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All genuine learning is active, not passive.
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Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.
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The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
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Books are absent teachers.
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Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.
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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
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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.
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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.
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The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking.
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Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
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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
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Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
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My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If it were wholly comprehensible, then it would just be another philosophy.
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The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
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