Best quotes by Mortimer Adler on Love

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

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• ‟ Love without conversation is impossible.

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• ‟ 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.

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

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• ‟ Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

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• ‟ Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

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• ‟ Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

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

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• ‟ The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.

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• ‟ In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

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• ‟ We love even when our love is not requited.

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• ‟ We love even when our love is not requited.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.

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

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.

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• ‟ Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.

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

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

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