Quotes By Mortimer Adler

Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

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.

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

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

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.