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All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.

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Mortimer Adler
Age: 98 †
Born: 1902
Born: December 28
Died: 2001
Died: June 28
Philosopher
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New York City
New York
Mortimer J. Adler
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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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More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.
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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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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 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.
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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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The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.
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Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.
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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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Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?
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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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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.
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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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True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
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I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith
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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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Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.
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The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
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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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Love without conversation is impossible.
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