莫提默·J.艾德勒(Mortimer J.Adler，1902—2001)， 美国哲学家、教育家和著名作家。作为一名哲学家，他遵循亚里士多德和托马斯主义的传统。他在纽约、芝加哥、旧金山和加州的圣马特奥生活了很长时间。他在哥伦比亚大学和芝加哥大学教学；担任大英百科全书的编辑,并成立了他自己的哲学研究所。
英汉智慧语录 English and Chinese Brainy Quotes
Idling is important. Most people don’t know how. They’re afraid of it. This explains why they turn on the television set or pick up the newspaper. They think they have to be doing something.
空闲是很重要的。大多数人都不知道怎么享受空闲时间。他们很害怕。这就解释了为什么他们会打开电视机或拿起报纸。他们认为他们必须做些什么。
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.爱别人，也被别人爱，不然我们每一个人都是孤独的，我们每一个人都是深深地孤独的。
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
友谊是一种非常费神和费力的休闲活动。
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.
想想看，如果人类社会是建立在爱（love）而不是正义（justice)）的基础上，那将会是多么不同。但这样的社会在地球上从未存在过。
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
你必须留出一定的时间，在这段时间里你什么都不做，以便让事情发生，让你的大脑思考。
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.
就好书而言，关键不是看你能读多少书，而是看你能读懂多少书。
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.自由就是从别人的专制统治中解放出来。
