Mortimer Adler Quotes

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.

He spent his whole life in plastering together the true and the false and therefrom extracting the plausible.

I think that anything in life is about the middle ground.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

President Johnson offered the middle of the road.

The art of politics is to find something in the middle that satisfies most.

it is no easy task to find the middle.

If we're fighting, we call Khloe. She's our peacemaker. Kourtney keeps us down-to-earth.

I want to fuse the abrasive and the beautiful.

I've always been about the balance - not sacrificing one thing for the other and not being an extremist.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.

The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.

I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.