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MOrtimer J. Adler
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
Mortimer J. Adler
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.
Mortimer J. Adler
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
Mortimer J. Adler
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 J. Adler
It is important to the child to be admired and respected, shown consideration and courtesy-and through these things to be the object of goodwill and well-wishing on the part of its parents.
Mortimer J. Adler
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 J. Adler
In every instance of acquisitive desire we are impelled to seek something for ourselves-to get it, consume it, appropriate or possess it in some way.
Mortimer J. Adler
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
Mortimer J. Adler
In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade. The pathos is his ability to touch feelings to move people emotionally. The logos is his ability to give solid reasons for an action, to move people intellectually.
Mortimer J. Adler
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.