Aristotle Quotes

The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.

Aristotle

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• Happiness
• Activity
• Contemplation
• Blessedness

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• On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

  

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• I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

  

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• Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.

  

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• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

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• My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

  

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• You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.

  

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• The journey matters as much as the goal.

  

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• I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

  

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• A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.

  

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• You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

  

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• Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

  

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• Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.

  

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• There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.

  

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• Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.

  

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• If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth creation, then our nation will increasingly be in peril.

  

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• Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.

  

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• The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.

  

  Aristotle
  • God
  • Happiness
  • Activity