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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.
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A person who has read widely but not well deserves to be pitied rather than praised. As
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Even when you have been somewhat enlightened by what you have read, you are called upon to continue the serach for significance.
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The possession of the truth is the highest goal of the human mind.
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The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.
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Philosophy is everybody's business.
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One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.
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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
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More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.
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Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
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We love even when our love is not requited.
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
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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.
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Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
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Being influential is not the mark of a great book.
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Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
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Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.
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Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
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If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you don't already possess
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Think of yourself as a detective looking for clues to a book's general theme or idea, alert for anything that will make it clearer.
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Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author.
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Scientific objectivity is not the absence of initial bias. It is attained by frank confession of it.
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As Thomas Hobbes said, If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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The beauty of any work of art is related to the pleasure it gives us when we know it well.
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Reading and the Democratic Ideal of Education
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A good rule always describes the ideal performance.
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The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.
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But it may be seriously questioned whether the advent of modern communications media has much enhanced our understanding of the world
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The undemanding reader asks no questions-and gets no answers.
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The mind can atrophy, like the muscles, if it is not used.
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The first stage of elementary reading - reading readiness - corresponds to pre-school and kindergarten experiences.
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TURN THE PAGES, DIPPING IN HERE AND THERE, READING A PARAGRAPH OR TWO, SOMETIMES SEVERAL PAGES IN SEQUENCE, NEVER MORE THAN THAT.
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One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
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one learns to do by doing.
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From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble.
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You cannot begin to deal with terms, propositions, and arguments - the elements of thought - until you can penetrate beneath the surface of language.
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Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
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Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction and comprehension.
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The student can read as fast as his mind will let him, not as slow as his eyes make him.
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Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.
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The First Level of Reading: Elementary Reading
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The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.
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Understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher.
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Books are absent teachers.
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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.
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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
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There is no inactive learning, just as there is no inactive reading.
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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
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A book is a work of art. (Again,
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Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.
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Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.
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You must be able to say "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend judgment.
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If an author does not give reasons for his propositions, they can only be treated as expressions of personal opinion on his part.
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Now there is no other way of forming a habit of operation than by operating.
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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.
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The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.
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True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
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To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.
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Any good argument can be put into a nutshell. There
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Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence. — Mortimer Adler
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
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Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.
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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.
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To use a good book as a sedative is conspicuous waste.
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It is only when you try to refine the obvious, and give the distinctions greater precision, that you get into difficulties. For
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All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.
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Love without conversation is impossible.
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The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.
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Great speed in reading is a dubious achievement; it is of value only if what you have to read is not worth reading.
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The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.
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The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice
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In short, we can only learn from our "betters".
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Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.
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Good books are over your head; they would not be good for you if they were not.
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The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster.
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In judging a practical book, everything turns on the ends or goals.
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Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
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