“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.”
— Mortimer Adler
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“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.”
— Mortimer Adler
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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.”
— Mortimer Adler
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“Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.”
— Mortimer Adler
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“Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.”
— Mortimer Adler
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“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.”
— Mortimer Adler
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“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”
— Mortimer Adler
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“Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.”
— Mortimer Adler
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“Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.”
— Mortimer Adler
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