"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."

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Mortimer Adler

#Satisfaction Quotes #Kind Quotes #Human Life Quotes

“And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.”
“Every Left-wing hysteria of my lifetime has turned out to be untrue. Every single one”
“Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.”
“I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen our hearts so we can keep them open to what is difficult: delight in taking a shower or a slow walk that has no destination, in touching something soft, in noticing the one small, black bird who sings every morning from the top of the big old pine tree ... I need to give my attention to the simple things that give me pleasure with the same fervor I have been giving it to the complex things with which I drive myself crazy.”
“Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.”
“Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'”
“I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.”
“Remember that consciousness is power. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.”

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