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Mortimer Adler
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Mortimer Adler
Age: 98 †
Born: 1902
Born: December 28
Died: 2001
Died: June 28
Philosopher
Teacher
University Teacher
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New York City
New York
Mortimer J. Adler
Mortimer Adler
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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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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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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 not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.
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I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith
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