Mortimer Adler Life Quotations

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as good or bad, as better or worse, derives from our conception of the good life for man on earth, and from our conviction that, given certain external conditions, it is possible for men to make good lives for themselves by their own efforts.