“You can't be a philosopher and an activist. If you do, you get all mixed up.”
Source: F.N. D'Alession. " Philosopher, reformer Mortimer Adler, father of 'Great Books' program, dies at 98 http://lubbockonline.com/stories/062901/upd_075-4286.shtml#.VVHE0_ntmko." at lubbockonline.com, June 29, 2001.
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American philosopher and educator 1902–2001Related quotes
“And sometimes when you're very mixed-up inside, you do things you know you shouldn't do.”
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“Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.”

“Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.”

W. B. Ragsdale, "An Old Friend Writes of Rayburn", in U.S. News & World Report (October 23, 1961), p. 72.