Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. — Quoted

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“Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.”

Mortimer Adler · Freedom

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Mortimer Adler

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.

Faith

Mortimer Adler

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.

Love

Mortimer Adler

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.

Love

Mortimer Adler

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

Loneliness