Mortimer Adler Quotes

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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. - Mortimer Adler quote.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
— Mortimer Adler How to Read a Book

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Fame does not tarnish as honor does when it is unmerited. - Mortimer Adler quote.
Fame does not tarnish as honor does when it is unmerited.
— Mortimer Adler Desires Right and Wrong: The Ethics of Enough

fame

Love and the union of love is impossible without conversation. - Mortimer Adler quote.
Love and the union of love is impossible without conversation.
— Mortimer Adler How to Think About the Great Ideas

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True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline. - Mortimer Adler quote.
True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
— Mortimer Adler How to Read a Book

freedom discipline

Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. - Mortimer Adler quote.
Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
— Mortimer Adler in Saturday Review

ideas

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent. - Mortimer Adler quote.
To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.
— Mortimer Adler How to Read a Book

understanding

In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. - Mortimer Adler quote.
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
— Mortimer Adler

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Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving. - Mortimer Adler quote.
Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.
— Mortimer Adler A Vision of the Future

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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you—how many you can make your own. - Mortimer Adler quote.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you—how many you can make your own.
— Mortimer Adler The Saturday Review of Literature

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In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos.  The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade.  The pathos is his ability to touch feelings, to move people emotionally.  The logos is his ability to give solid reasons for an action, to move people intellectually. - Mortimer Adler quote.
In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos.  The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade.  The pathos is his ability to touch feelings, to move people emotionally.  The logos is his ability to give solid reasons for an action, to move people intellectually.
— Mortimer Adler in Time

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