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“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier, John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection

“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us the impression that our minds are active, because we are required to react to stimuli from the outside. But the power of those external stimuli to keep us going is limited. They are like drugs. We grow used to them, and we continuously need more and more of them. Eventually, they have little or no effect. Then, if we lack resources within ourselves, we cease to grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually. And we we cease to grow, we begin to die.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book

“Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book

“The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book

“To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself the trouble of thinking by asking him what he means. If, however, you ask a book a question, you must answer it yourself. In this respect a book is like nature or the world. When you question it, it answers you only to the extent that you do the work of thinking an analysis yourself.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must be completed by the work of criticism, the work of judging. The undemanding reader fails to satisfy this requirement, probably even more than he fails to analyze and interpret. He not only makes no effort to understand; he also dismisses a book simply by putting it aside and forgetting it. Worse than faintly praising it, he damns it by giving it no critical consideration whatever.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies..”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book

“... The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as much prepared to have his own mind changed as seek to change the mind of another ... No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

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

“All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you don't already possess”
― mortimer adler

“Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.”
― Mortimer Adler

“The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“Человек, который много, но плохо читал, заслуживает скорее жалости, чем похвалы, за то, что так бездарно потратил время и усилия.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“Even when you have been somewhat enlightened by what you have read, you are called upon to continue the serach for significance.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading