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
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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.
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
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.
To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
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.
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
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.
... 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.
First, an angel is spiritually present at whatever place in physical space happens to be occupied by the body on which it acts. It can be present at that place without leaving Heaven which is its spiritual residence...
The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.
The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.