Mortimer Adler Quotes
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.
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.
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice
The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.
Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.
One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.
I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.
