Mortimer Adler

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

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Mortimer Adler

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

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Mortimer Adler

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.

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Mortimer Adler

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

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Mortimer Adler

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

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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.

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Mortimer Adler

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.

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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.

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