Mortimer Adler Quotes on Virtue
Mortimer Jerome Adler was an American philosopher and educator and the most prolific philosophical popularizer of his generation. This page collects quotes attributed to Mortimer Adler on the topic of virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Mortimer Adler:
“Reading well is the foundation of thinking well.”
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Attributed to Mortimer Adler:
“Truth, goodness, and beauty are objective and discoverable.”
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Attributed to Mortimer Adler:
“Aristotle, rightly read, is still the philosopher of common sense.”
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“In the case of good books , the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.”
How to Mark a Book," The Saturday Review of Literature (6 July 1941); also in Modern English Readings (1946), pp. 298-301