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We wish the joy of love, the ...

We wish the joy of love, the joy of companionship, of being in the company of, in the presence of the person we love, of living a common life with that person, perhaps ultimately the joy of perfect union.

Mortimer Adler 137 quotes

There is no more irritating f...

There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.

Mortimer Adler 137 quotes

To agree without understanding...

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

Mortimer Adler 137 quotes

... The person who, at any sta...

... The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as much prepared to have his own mind changed as seek to change the mind of another ... No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught.

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The great authors were great r...

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

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Imaginative literature primari...

Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.

Mortimer Adler 137 quotes

Work that is pure toil, done s...

Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.

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Too many facts are often as mu...

Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.

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One reader is better than anot...

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.

Mortimer Adler 137 quotes

The love which moves the world...

The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.

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In Aristotelian terms, the goo...

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.

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Sin is not only manifested in ...

Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings. Lust and hate are sins as well as adultery and murder. And, in the traditional Christian view, despair and chronic boredom - unaccompanied by any vicious act - are serious sins. They are expressions of man's separation from God, as the ultimate good, meaning, and end of human existence.

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If a book is easy and fits nic...

If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding. It's the hard books that count. Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you might find diamonds.

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The best protection against pr...

The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. Propaganda taken in that way is like a drug you do not know you are swallowing. The effect is mysterious; you do not know afterwards why you feel or think the way you do.

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I suspect that most of the ind...

I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe. They may even wish not to have their beliefs disturbed by thought. But if God in whom they believe created them with intellectual and rational powers, that imposes upon them the duty to try to understand the creed of their religion. Not to do so is to verge on superstition.

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The ultimate end of education ...

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

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... always keep in mind that a...

... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.

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Love wishes to perpetuate itse...

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

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Ultimately, we wish the joy of...

Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.

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Philosophy is everybody's busi...

Philosophy is everybody's business.

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