Mortimer Adler Quotes

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

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

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

“Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.”

“51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!”

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

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

“My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.”

“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.”

“I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.”