Mortimer Adler citáty
Mortimer Adler
Datum narození: 28. prosinec 1902
Datum úmrtí: 28. červen 2001
Mortimer Jerome Adler byl americký aristotelský filosof a spisovatel, spolutvůrce programu The Great Books.
Citáty Mortimer Adler
„Telefonní seznam je plný faktů, ale neobsahuje jedinou myšlenku.“
Originál: (en) The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
Zdroj: [Adler, Mortimer, Van Doren, Geraldine, 1988, Reforming education: the opening of the American mind, Macmillan, angličtiny]
„Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.“
Zdroj: How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
„In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.“
Zdroj: Connie Robertson (1998). Book of Humorous Quotations. p. 2
„True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.“
Zdroj: 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.“
Zdroj: 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.“
Zdroj: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
„To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.“
Zdroj: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
„The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.“
Zdroj: 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.“
Zdroj: How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
„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.“
Zdroj: How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
„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.“
Zdroj: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
„It is only by struggling with difficult books, books over one's head, that anyone learns to read.“
Zdroj: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 315
„The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.“
Zdroj: Joseph Allen (1979). The Leisure alternatives catalog: food for mind & body. p. 134
„[Television, radio, and magazines] are so designed as to make thinking seem unnecessary (though this is only an appearance). The packaging of intellectual positions and views is one of the most active enterprises of some of the best minds of our day. The viewer of television, the listener to radio, the reader of magazines, is presented with a whole complex of elements—all the way from ingenious rhetoric to carefully selected data and statistics—to make it easy for him to “make up his own mind” with the minimum of difficulty and effort. But the packaging is often done so effectively that the viewer, listener, or reader does not make up his own mind at all. Instead, he inserts a packaged opinion into his mind, somewhat like inserting a cassette into a cassette player. He then pushes a button and “plays back” the opinion whenever it seems appropriate to do so. He has performed acceptably without having had to think.“
— Mortimer J. Adler, kniha How to Read a Book
Zdroj: How to Read a Book (1940, 1972), p. 4
„You can't be a philosopher and an activist. If you do, you get all mixed up.“
Zdroj: F.N. D'Alession. " Philosopher, reformer Mortimer Adler, father of 'Great Books' program, dies at 98 http://lubbockonline.com/stories/062901/upd_075-4286.shtml#.VVHE0_ntmko." at lubbockonline.com, June 29, 2001.
„The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.“
Zdroj: Connie Robertson (1998). Book of Humorous Quotations. p. 2
