102 Quotes by Mortimer Adler

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

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

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.

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.

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

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.

Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.