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Mortimer Adler

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

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Asa Don Brown

"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

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Asa Don Brown

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

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Asa Don Brown

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

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Asa Don Brown

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

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Asa Don Brown

"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

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Mortimer Adler
"Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth."

Love

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

Love

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Mortimer Adler
"Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship."

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Mortimer Adler
"Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians."

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Mortimer Adler
"One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union."

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Mortimer Adler
"The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea."

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Mortimer Adler
"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."

Love

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Mortimer Adler
"We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also."

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Mortimer Adler
"Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless."

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"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."

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