Quotes Mortimer Adler

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime ex...

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard n...

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist eve...

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfish...

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

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its...

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

I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this m...

I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is conn...

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usuall...

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of...

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the differe...

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many ...

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if...

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and ...

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving...

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortalit...

Love without conversation is impossible....

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or so...

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

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

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creatio...

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-ce...

The love which moves the world, according to common Christia...

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of maki...