Mortimer Adler

Mortimer Adler

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. Uncategorized
Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship. Uncategorized
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized

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