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. – Mortimer Adler
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself. – Mortimer Adler
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. – Mortimer Adler
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. – Mortimer Adler
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God’s love and the love of God. – Mortimer Adler
Aristotle uses a mother’s love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship. – Mortimer Adler
When we ask for love, we don’t ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice… and begging or pleading for love. – Mortimer Adler
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. – Mortimer Adler
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. – Mortimer Adler
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter. – Mortimer Adler
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. – Mortimer Adler
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. – Mortimer Adler
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
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. – Mortimer Adler
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
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others. – Mortimer Adler
Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure. – Mortimer Adler
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. – Mortimer Adler
