Quote of the Day (Mortimer Adler, on Good Books)

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through you.”— American philosopher, educator, and encyclopedist Mortimer J. Adler (1902-2001), “How to Mark a Book,” The Saturday Review of Literature, July 6, 1941

Quote of the Day (Mortimer Adler, on Why ‘The Great Ideas Belong to Everyone’)

“We often think of ourselves as living in a world which no longer has any unexplored frontiers. We speak of pioneering as a thing of the past. But in doing so we forget that the greatest adventure of all still challenges us – what Mr. Justice [Oliver Wendell] Holmes [Jr.] called ‘the adventure of the human mind.’ Men may be hemmed in geographically, but every generation stands on the frontiers of the mind. In the world of ideas, there is always pioneering to be done, and it can be done by anyone who will use the equipment with which he is endowed. The great ideas belong to everyone.”—American philosopher and educator Mortimer Adler (1902-2001), Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1989)