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Mortimer Adler
American Philosopher
Born: Dec 28, 1902
Died: Jun 28, 2001
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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
Love True Love Love Is Giving Other Pleasure Consists Exchange Never True Fair Return Without Due Owed Getting Utility Based Why Associations
When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love. Mortimer Adler
Love Justice World Care Demanding Others Pleading Considerate Rather Between Fair Begging Difference Ask Us Here
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
Love Man Woman Other Way Find Sexual Rather More Liking Than Person Intelligible Interest Much Choice Origin
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. Mortimer Adler
Truth Heart Will Made Free Free Will Assured Our Follow Glad Lead Know Also Well Make Motive End Hearts May In The End Acknowledge Which Us
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
Love Self-Satisfaction Lust Pleasure Some Rather Only Takes Wrong Another Than Form Wants Sensual Desire
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
Love Selfish Own Lust Addition Our Pleasure Sexual Sexuality Some Give Unbridled Rather Merely Thus Involved Also Than Impulse Want Loved Them Persons Use Need
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
Love Love Is People About Give Most Answer Wonder Reproduction Themselves Ask Connected Why Ever
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union. Mortimer Adler
Creation Aims Sexual Itself Reproduction Procreation Union Image
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
Love Women Better Men Men And Women Reading Situation Think Only Make Read Than Effort Which Letter
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality. Mortimer Adler
Love Immortality Wishes Perpetuate Itself
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. Mortimer Adler
Friendship Arduous Very Form Leisure Taxing Activity
Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure. Mortimer Adler
Time You Synonymous Verb Nor Leisure Noun
One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian. Mortimer Adler
Faith Problems First Christian Presidents States Embarrassing Six United United States Christian Faith Orthodox Champions Early
Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship. Mortimer Adler
Love Friendship Mother Example Aristotle Prime Child Uses Her
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. Mortimer Adler
Love Alone Lonely Unless Loved Us Each Deeply
Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. Mortimer Adler
Love Philosophers Scientists Theologians Theories Works Found
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
Good Selfish Others Ourselves Concerned Altruistic
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. Mortimer Adler
Love Friendship Weakened Sexual Disappeared Withered Spouses Persist After Even Desires
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. Mortimer Adler
Love Different Kinds Distinct Distinguish Adjectives Ancient Must Kinds Had Names Different Which Use English
The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind. Mortimer Adler
Try Mind Duty Ought Philosopher Never Making Making Up His Up Avoid
Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure. Mortimer Adler
Work Living Earn Pleasure Only Gives Does Leisure Toil

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