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If the average man is made in God's image, then such a man as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God ... — H.L. Mencken

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul. — Aristotle.

Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet. — Aristotle.

What was Aristotle's life?' Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: 'He was born, he thought, he died.' And all the rest is pure anecdote. — Martin Heidegger

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle.

But to be constantly asking 'What is the use of it?' is unbecoming to those of broad vision and unworthy of free men. — Aristotle.

Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Laurence J. Peter

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends. — Aristotle.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions. — Aristotle.

Happiness is the exercise of talent, along the lines of excellence. — Aristotle.

A person's life persuades better than his word. — Aristotle.

Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver. — Aristotle.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle.

He came down from the North to Paris with a mind like Aristotle's and a form like mortal sin. We shattered the Commandments on the spot. — James Goldman

Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden. — Aristotle.

To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another. — Elizabeth Montagu

[Footnote:] The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself. — Will Cuppy

I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors. — Aristotle Onassis

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship. — Mortimer Adler

Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought. — C.S. Lewis

A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties. — Aristotle.

It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously. — Aristotle.

Happiness is a quality of the soul ... not a function of one's material circumstances. — Aristotle.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain. — Aristotle.

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best, but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire. — Aristotle.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely. — Aristotle.

Again what city ever received Plato's or Aristotle's laws, or Socrates' precepts? But, — Erasmus

[I]n speaking about someone's character, we do not say that he is wise or comprehending, but that he is gentle or moderate. — Aristotle.

I knew that a part of him would never be the same. They cracked more than his ribs. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature. — Aristotle.

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients. — Aristotle.

Impatient much?" "Patience is bitter. It's the fruit that's sweet." "Did you just quote Aristotle?" "Maybe. — Vi Keeland

He was not only the last of the great Greek philosophers, he was Europe's first great biologist. — Jostein Gaarder

My father nodded. 'Ari, the problem isn't just that Dante's in love with you. The real problem
for you anyway
is that you're in love with him. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness — Aristotle.

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success. — Aristotle.

Quality is not an an act, it's a habit. — Aristotle.

Aristotle, I swear that kid is going to get himself killed one of these days. He's a dumbass at the genetic level. — Gary Ballard

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end. — Aristotle.

Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials. — Aristotle.

Fifty Aristotle's equals one King Solomon. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Aristotle didn't have a problem with abortion," she says.
"Oh, well, good, that's a comfort," I say. — Deborah Meyler

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants. — Aristotle.

Aristotle wrote the 'Poetics' 2,400 years ago. It's really an instruction manual for aspiring filmmakers. It's as valid today as it was then. — Nicholas Jarecki

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself — Aristotle.

It's during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. — Aristotle Onassis

[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed. — Aristotle.

Live and die in Aristotle's works. — Christopher Marlowe

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history. — Gilbert Murray

Inequality is everywhere at the bottom of faction, for in general faction arises from men's striving for what is equal. — Aristotle.

The man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's. — Aristotle.

Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs. — Plutarch

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness); — Aristotle.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake. — Aristotle.

It's the fastest who gets paid, and it's the fastest who gets laid. — Aristotle.

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes. — Aristotle.

No science ever defends its first principles. — Aristotle.

The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing. — Aristotle.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. — Aristotle.

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize. — Aristotle.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Aristotle — Danielle LaPorte

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger. — Aristotle.

The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause. — Bertrand Russell

Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so. — Simon Critchley

The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them. — Aristotle.

For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves. — Charles Duhigg

Educating the head without educating the heart is no education at all — Aristotle.

Evil draws men together. — Aristotle.

Every realm of nature is marvelous. — Aristotle.

The science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable. — Aristotle.

It is no easy task to be good. — Aristotle.

The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart. — Aristotle.

mean is the cause — Aristotle.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there's too much corruption in the world — Aristotle.

As my great friend Aristotle said, 'If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.' I'm not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee. — Shaquille O'Neal

The best things are placed between extremes. — Aristotle.

The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest. — Aristotle.

The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become. — Aristotle.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence ... makes us more fully conscious of our own existence. — Aristotle.

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave. — Aristotle.

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.' — Aristotle.

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice. — Aristotle.

But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence. — Ayn Rand

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom. — Aristotle.

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it. — Aristotle.

I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain. — Walter Raleigh

Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence. — Aristotle.

You belong everywhere you go. That's just how you are. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

If something's bound to happen, it will
happen.. Right time, right person, and for
the best reason. — Aristotle.

My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato rather than Aristotle's."

~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods

There's many a slip between the cup and the lip. — Aristotle.

Only you can take you to Funkytown. — Aristotle.

The greatest victory is over self. — Aristotle.

We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful. — Aristotle.

To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd — Aristotle.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle.

When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you. — Aristotle.

When we deliberate it is about means and not ends. — Aristotle.

The soul never thinks without a mental picture. — Aristotle.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle.