Famous Mortimer Adler Quotations

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"Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men."
by Mortimer Adler
"Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship."
by Mortimer Adler
"Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself."
by Mortimer Adler
"Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity."
by Mortimer 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."
by Mortimer Adler
"One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union."
by 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."
by Mortimer Adler
"Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts."
by Mortimer J. Adler
"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."
by Mortimer J. Adler
"A good performance, like a human life, is a temporal affair—a process in time. It is good as a whole through being good in its parts, and th..."
by Mortimer J. Adler


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