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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
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
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True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
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Political democracy cannot flourish under all economic conditions. Democracy requires an economic system which supports the political ideals of liberty and equality for all. Men cannot exercise freedom in the political sphere when they are deprived of it in the economic sphere.
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I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith
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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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Let me roughly divide books into those which compete with the movies and those with which the movies cannot compete. They are the books that can elevate or instruct. If they are fine works of fiction, they can deepen your appreciation of human life. If they are serious works of nonfiction, they can inform or enlighten you.
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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.
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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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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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All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.
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Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.
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The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.
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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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The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of 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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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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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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... The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as much prepared to have his own mind changed as seek to change the mind of another ... No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught.
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To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.
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Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.
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