Mortimer Adler Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.