Aristotle Quotes
Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.
Quotes to Explore
-
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
-
I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
-
If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.
-
I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
-
If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
-
I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.
-
The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
-
I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
-
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
-
The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
-
My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
-
When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
-
I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
-
We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
-
I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
-
If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
-
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
-
I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.
-
Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
-
No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
-
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
-
In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness.
-
Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.
