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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
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.
A person's life persuades better than his word.
— 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
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
It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.
— 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.
[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
for you anyway
is that you're in love with him. — Benjamin Alire Saenz
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.
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
"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.
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.
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.
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Aristotle
— Danielle LaPorte
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
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.
mean is the cause
— 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
~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.
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.