Mortimer Adler
Mortimer Adler
Mortimer Jerome Adlerwas an American philosopher, educator, and popular author. As a philosopher he worked within the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions. He lived for long stretches in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, and San Mateo, California. He worked for Columbia University, the University of Chicago, Encyclopædia Britannica, and Adler's own Institute for Philosophical Research...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth28 December 1902
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Mortimer Adler quotes about
An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.
In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of subterranean conscious.
More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.
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.
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.
All genuine learning is active, not passive.
Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.
Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
... The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as much prepared to have his own mind changed as seek to change the mind of another ... No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.