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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. — Mortimer J. Adler

A person who has read widely but not well deserves to be pitied rather than praised. As — Mortimer J. Adler

Even when you have been somewhat enlightened by what you have read, you are called upon to continue the serach for significance. — Mortimer J. Adler

The possession of the truth is the highest goal of the human mind. — Mortimer J. Adler

The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God. — Mortimer Adler

Philosophy is everybody's business. — Mortimer Adler

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort. — Mortimer Adler

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. — Mortimer Adler

More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question. — Mortimer Adler

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. — Mortimer Adler

We love even when our love is not requited. — Mortimer Adler

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. — Mortimer Adler

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. — Mortimer Adler

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself. — Mortimer Adler

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. — Mortimer Adler

Being influential is not the mark of a great book. — Mortimer Adler

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind. — Mortimer Adler

Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love. — Mortimer Adler

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. — Mortimer Adler

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure. — Mortimer Adler

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship. — Mortimer Adler

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 — Mortimer J. Adler

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. — Mortimer J. Adler

Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. — Mortimer J. Adler

Scientific objectivity is not the absence of initial bias. It is attained by frank confession of it. — Mortimer J. Adler

As Thomas Hobbes said, If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are. — Mortimer J. Adler

The beauty of any work of art is related to the pleasure it gives us when we know it well. — Mortimer J. Adler

Reading and the Democratic Ideal of Education — Mortimer J. Adler

A good rule always describes the ideal performance. — Mortimer J. Adler

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time. — Mortimer J. Adler

But it may be seriously questioned whether the advent of modern communications media has much enhanced our understanding of the world — Mortimer J. Adler

The undemanding reader asks no questions-and gets no answers. — Mortimer J. Adler

The mind can atrophy, like the muscles, if it is not used. — Mortimer J. Adler

The first stage of elementary reading - reading readiness - corresponds to pre-school and kindergarten experiences. — Mortimer J. Adler

TURN THE PAGES, DIPPING IN HERE AND THERE, READING A PARAGRAPH OR TWO, SOMETIMES SEVERAL PAGES IN SEQUENCE, NEVER MORE THAN THAT. — Mortimer J. Adler

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union. — Mortimer Adler

one learns to do by doing. — Mortimer J. Adler

From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble. — Mortimer J. Adler

You cannot begin to deal with terms, propositions, and arguments - the elements of thought - until you can penetrate beneath the surface of language. — Mortimer J. Adler

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality. — Mortimer Adler

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. — Mortimer Adler

Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction and comprehension. — Mortimer J. Adler

The student can read as fast as his mind will let him, not as slow as his eyes make him. — Mortimer J. Adler

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. — Mortimer Adler

The First Level of Reading: Elementary Reading — Mortimer J. Adler

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. — Mortimer J. Adler

Understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher. — Mortimer J. Adler

Books are absent teachers. — Mortimer J. Adler

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. — Mortimer Adler

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. — Mortimer J. Adler

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. — Mortimer Adler

There is no inactive learning, just as there is no inactive reading. — Mortimer J. Adler

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. — Mortimer Adler

A book is a work of art. (Again, — Mortimer J. Adler

Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you. — Mortimer J. Adler

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. — Mortimer Adler

You must be able to say "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend judgment. — Mortimer J. Adler

If an author does not give reasons for his propositions, they can only be treated as expressions of personal opinion on his part. — Mortimer J. Adler

Now there is no other way of forming a habit of operation than by operating. — Mortimer J. Adler

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. — Mortimer Adler

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read. — Mortimer J. Adler

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline. — Mortimer J. Adler

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent. — Mortimer J. Adler

Any good argument can be put into a nutshell. There — Mortimer J. Adler

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. — Mortimer J. Adler

Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind. — Mortimer J. Adler

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

To use a good book as a sedative is conspicuous waste. — Mortimer J. Adler

It is only when you try to refine the obvious, and give the distinctions greater precision, that you get into difficulties. For — Mortimer J. Adler

All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them. — Mortimer J. Adler

Love without conversation is impossible. — Mortimer Adler

It's not how many books you get through, it's how many books get through you. — Mortimer Adler

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. — Mortimer J. Adler

Great speed in reading is a dubious achievement; it is of value only if what you have to read is not worth reading. — Mortimer J. Adler

The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students. — Mortimer Adler

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 — Mortimer J. Adler

In short, we can only learn from our "betters". — Mortimer J. Adler

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure. — Mortimer Adler

Good books are over your head; they would not be good for you if they were not. — Mortimer J. Adler

The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster. — Mortimer J. Adler

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful. — Mortimer Adler

In judging a practical book, everything turns on the ends or goals. — Mortimer J. Adler

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. — Mortimer Adler

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture. — Mortimer Adler

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks. — Mortimer J. Adler