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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
Mortimer Adler
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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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All genuine learning is active, not passive.
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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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Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.
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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
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More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.
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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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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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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.
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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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Books are absent teachers.
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The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.
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The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
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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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All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.
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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 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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Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.
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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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Emancipation of human labor from economic servitude and exploitation, i.e., from organizations of production in which the conditions of work are determined by a master class who own the means of production, and in which the fruits of work are alienated from workers to the benefit of masters.
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The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.
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