Author: Mortimer Adler

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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.

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

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

- Mortimer Adler

Love without conversation is impossible.

Love without conversation is impossible.

- Mortimer Adler

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.

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.

- Mortimer Adler

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

- Mortimer Adler

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

- Mortimer Adler

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

- Mortimer Adler

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

- 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.

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

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