Quotes By Mortimer Adler

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.

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

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.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

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

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