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Mortimer J. Adler
Proper self-love is inseparable from the true love of another. In fact, it is its basis and measure. It is the second precept of charity. The mutuality of love arises from loving in ourselves the same excellence we love in others. Without amour-propre or proper self-respect, true love would be impossible.
Mortimer J. Adler
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 J. Adler
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
Mortimer J. Adler
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of men.
Mortimer J. Adler
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
Mortimer J. Adler
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.
Mortimer J. Adler
Most of the great stories of love-in novels and plays-are stories of erotic love.
Mortimer J. Adler
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
Mortimer J. Adler
Loving someone may involve more than goodwill toward them-wishing to benefit them or give to them, but it must involve at least that. If it doesn't, it isn't love at all.
Mortimer J. Adler
Love without conversation is impossible.