102 Quotes by Mortimer Adler

We love even when our love is not requited.

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

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.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

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

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.

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