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.

quote by Mortimer Adler
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

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.

quote by Mortimer Adler
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

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.

quote by Mortimer Adler
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

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.

quote by Mortimer Adler
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

quote by Mortimer Adler
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

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.

quote by Mortimer Adler
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!