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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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Mortimer J. Adler
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If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding. It’s the hard books that count. Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves digging is hard, but you might find diamonds.
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Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
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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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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 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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Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
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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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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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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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Books are absent teachers.
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All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.
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I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith
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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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Love without conversation is impossible.
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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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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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Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
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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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