In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
—Mortimer J. Adler
Topics: Books, Reading
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 J. Adler
Topics: Enjoyment
Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.
—Mortimer J. Adler
Topics: Habits, Habit
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 J. Adler
Exclusive preference for either the past or the present is a foolish and wasteful form of snobbishness and provinciality.
—Mortimer J. 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 J. Adler
Topics: Effort
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn’t contain a single idea.
—Mortimer J. Adler
Topics: Just for Fun, Information
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
—Mortimer J. Adler
Topics: Learning
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
—Mortimer J. Adler
Topics: Independence, Freedom
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
—Mortimer J. Adler
Topics: Reading, Books
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
—Mortimer J. Adler
Topics: Wishes
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Horace Mann American Educator
- Anne Sullivan Macy American Educator
- Frank Moore Colby American Writer, Editor
- John Dewey American Philosopher
- Robert H. Shaffer American Educator
- Booker T. Washington African-American Educationist
- Laurence J. Peter Canadian-born American Educator
- Robert Maynard Hutchins American Educator
- E. Merrill Root American Educator
- Henry David Thoreau American Philosopher
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