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• Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

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  Self Love, Wish, Immortality

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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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  Spiritual, Religious, Angel

  Mortimer J. Adler (1982). “Angels and Us”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Political democracy cannot flourish under all economic conditions. Democracy requires an economic system which supports the political ideals of liberty and equality for all. Men cannot exercise freedom in the political sphere when they are deprived of it in the economic sphere.

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  Exercise, Men, Support

  Louis O. Kelso, Mortimer J. Adler (2017). “The Capitalist Manifesto”, p.6, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• 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.

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  Christian, Champion, President

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• Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.

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  Literature, Taught, Easier

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Selfless, Unselfish Love, Benevolent

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• Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

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  Heart, Mind, Oratory

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Book, Great Book

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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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  Time, Too Much, About Yourself

  Mortimer J. Adler (1997). “How to Speak How to Listen”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• We wish the joy of love, the joy of companionship, of being in the company of, in the presence of the person we love, of living a common life with that person, perhaps ultimately the joy of perfect union.

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  Perfect, Joy, Wish

  "How to Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization".

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• All genuine learning is active, not passive.

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  Leadership, Sports, Genuine

  Mortimer Adler (2000). “How to Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization”, p.198, Open Court

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• Love without conversation is impossible.

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  Love, Insomnia, Impossible

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• A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must be completed by the work of criticism, the work of judging. The undemanding reader fails to satisfy this requirement, probably even more than he fails to analyze and interpret. He not only makes no effort to understand; he also dismisses a book simply by putting it aside and forgetting it. Worse than faintly praising it, he damns it by giving it no critical consideration whatever.

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  Book, Reading, Giving

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• I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.

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  Giving Up, Love Is, People

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• 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.

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  Selfish, Giving, Lust

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• Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence.
  They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.

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  Inspiring, Angel, Form

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1993). “Angels and Us”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• We love even when our love is not requited.

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  Love Is, Our Love

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• We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

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  Truth, Heart, May

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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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  Christian, Moving, World

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• There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.

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  Men, Justice, Trying

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• 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.

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  Careers, Differences, Justice

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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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  Reading, Challenges, Way

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• ... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.

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  Faithful, Mind, Opinion

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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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 do not already possess.

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  Giving Up, Book, Insight

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.

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  Angel, Ideas, Understanding

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1982). “The angels and us”, Scribner

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