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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
Philosopher
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New York City
New York
Mortimer J. Adler
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Love without conversation is impossible.
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The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.
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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 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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Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.
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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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I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith
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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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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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Books are absent teachers.
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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 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 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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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 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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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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Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.
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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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Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
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