Aristotle Quotes
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The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.
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Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
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Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.
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Through discipline comes freedom.
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Justice is the loveliest and health is the best, but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.
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At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose.
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The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.
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Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.
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Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.
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Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
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Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.
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Music imitates the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
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What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
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A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
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There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.