Mortimer Adler Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.”

“If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.”

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

“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.”

“Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.”

“I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.”

“Being influential is not the mark of a great book.”

“One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.”

“Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.”

“There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.”