Mortimer Adler Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• 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.

  Mortimer Adler

  Self, Lust, Sensual

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1991). “Desires, Right & Wrong: The Ethics of Enough”, MacMillan Publishing Company

• Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

  Mortimer Adler

  Lost Friendship, Desire, Conjugal

  "Desires, Right & Wrong: The Ethics of Enough".

• 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 Adler

  Animal, Choices, Desire

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