Quotes By Mortimer Adler

Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

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

We love even when our love is not requited.

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.

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.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.