Mortimer Adler Quotes & Sayings

“Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.”

“Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.”

“We love even when our love is not requited.”

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

“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.”

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”