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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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Mortimer Adler
Age: 98 †
Born: 1902
Born: December 28
Died: 2001
Died: June 28
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New York City
New York
Mortimer J. Adler
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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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There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.
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Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
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Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.
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... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.
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To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.
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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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True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
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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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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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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 can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
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Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.
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Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.
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All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.
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All genuine learning is active, not passive.
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