Quotes from Mortimer Adler
The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.
- Mortimer Adler
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
- Mortimer Adler
More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.
- Mortimer Adler
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.
- Mortimer Adler
A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.
- Mortimer Adler
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.
- Mortimer Adler
Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.
- Mortimer Adler
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
- Mortimer 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.
- Mortimer Adler
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
- Mortimer Adler
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
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
- Mortimer Adler