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Mortimer Adler

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

Mortimer Adler

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

– Mortimer Adler

Mortimer Adler

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation – the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

– Mortimer Adler

Mortimer Adler

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

– Mortimer Adler

Mortimer Adler

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

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.

– Mortimer Adler

Mortimer Adler

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

– Mortimer Adler

Mortimer Adler

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

– Mortimer Adler

Mortimer Adler

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

Mortimer Adler

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.

– Mortimer Adler

Mortimer Adler

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

– Mortimer Adler

Mortimer Adler

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That’s why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

– Mortimer Adler

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