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• The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies.

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  Wise, Simple, Adults

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.

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  Book, Light, Proportion

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• 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.

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  Work, Self, Toil

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1984). “Vision of the Future: Twelve Ideas for a Better Life and a Better Society”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as good or bad, as better or worse, derives from our conception of the good life for man on earth, and from our conviction that, given certain external conditions, it is possible for men to make good lives for themselves by their own efforts.

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  Life, Men, Judging

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

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• The rules for reading yourself to sleep are easier to follow than are the rules for staying awake while reading. Get into bed in a comfortable position, make sure the light is inadequate enough to cause slight eyestrain, choose a book that is either terribly difficult or terribly boring-in any event, one that you do not really care whether you read or not-and you will be asleep in a few minutes. Those who are experts in relaxing with a book do not have to wait for nightfall. A comfortable chair in the library will do any time

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  Book, Reading, Sleep

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1982). “The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto”, Touchstone

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

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  Reading, Effort, Able

  "How to Read a Book". Book by Mortimer Adler, 1940.

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• Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.

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  Love Is, Views, Roots

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• Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.

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  Erotic, Lustful, Ifs

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

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• The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

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  Mind, Trying, Philosopher

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

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  Men, Three, Way

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

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  Philosopher, Scientist, Found

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• The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

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  Adults, Way, Complexity

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Mother, Children, Example

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

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  Unions, Creation, Aim

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

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  Names, Different, Adjectives

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• If we consider men and women generally, and apart from their professions or occupations, there is only one situation I can think of in which they almost pull themselves up by their bootstraps, making an effort to read better than they usually do. When they are in love and are reading a love letter, they read for all they are worth.

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  Love, Reading, Men

  "How to Speak How to Listen".

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• Emancipation of human labor from economic servitude and exploitation, i.e., from organizations of production in which the conditions of work are determined by a master class who own the means of production, and in which the fruits of work are alienated from workers to the benefit of masters.

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  Wisdom, Mean, Class

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• If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.

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  Book, Heart, Car

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• 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.

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  Men, Liking Someone, Choices

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

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  Lost Friendship, Desire, Conjugal

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

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• First, an angel is spiritually present at whatever place in physical space happens to be occupied by the body on which it acts. It can be present at that place without leaving Heaven which is its spiritual residence.

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  Spiritual, Angel, Space

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