Quotes
Mortimer J. Adler
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
Mortimer J. Adler
Benevolent desires and giving represent the altruistic or unselfish aspect.
Mortimer J. Adler
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
Mortimer J. Adler
Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
Mortimer J. Adler
Another example of heroic love is the American hero.
Mortimer J. Adler
All love is sexual love. The mythology of love shows that this is an ancient and popular view of the matter. Think of the character of Venus and her son Cupid, and the arrows of Cupid... cupidity. Love is something to be feared, even dreaded or avoided, as the worst enemy of peace of mind and repose.
Mortimer J. Adler
All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
To be human means to feel inferior.
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.