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Mortimer Adler Quotes
Aristotle uses a mothers love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
Freuds 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. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
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 Quotes
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. Thats why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
Love without conversation is impossible. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of men. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is Gods love and the love of God. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesnt contain a single idea. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
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. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
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