Famous quotes by Mortimer Adler:

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself"

"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."

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

"Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess."

"Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself."