In idling, the motor’s running, but you’re letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of subterranean conscious. Mortimer Adler Read Quote
An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture. Mortimer Adler Read Quote
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself. Mortimer Adler Read Quote
Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure. Mortimer Adler Read Quote
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 Adler Read Quote
One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian. Mortimer Adler Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give. Mortimer Adler Read Quote
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. Mortimer Adler Read Quote
