102 Quotes by Mortimer Adler

In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of subterranean conscious.

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

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.

I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.

Inquiry not only begins with wonder, but usually ends with it also.

All genuine learning is active, not passive.

Philosophy is everybody's business.

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God....