“There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make...” — Mortimer Adler Quote

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.

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

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.

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.

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.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

The six of us gathered at my house, and we walked to the polls. I'll never forget it. Not a Negro was on the streets, and when we got to the courthouse, the clerk said he wanted to talk with us. When we got into his office, some 15 or 20 armed white men surged in behind us - men I had grown up with, had played with.

Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.