We are tied down, all our days and for the greater part of our days, to the commonplace. That is where contact with the great thinkers, great literature helps. In their company we are still in the ordinary world, but it is the ordinary world transfigured and seen through the eyes of wisdom and genius. And some of their genius becomes ours.
Mortimer Adler, born on this day in 1902.
Firing Line was so calming. The music. the set, the suits, the respectful discourse ...
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Happy Birthday indeed! What a brilliant book to revisit and this clip that you have shared shows the remarkable and engaging human that he was!
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