Aristotle
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An ancient Greek philosopher who contributed profoundly to nearly every field of knowledge, including ethics, metaphysics, politics, and science. He pioneered a systematic approach to philosophy and scientific inquiry. His works explore concepts of virtue, happiness, and rationality, laying the groundwork for Western intellectual traditions. His legacy endures in philosophy, science, and logic.
Aristotle
Quotes
An ancient Greek philosopher who contributed profoundly to nearly every field of knowledge, including ethics, metaphysics, politics, and science. He pioneered a systematic approach to philosophy and scientific inquiry. His works explore concepts of virtue, happiness, and rationality, laying the groundwork for Western intellectual traditions. His legacy endures in philosophy, science, and logic.
It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.
Happiness depends on ourselves.
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.
Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.
Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
We can't learn without pain.
Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.
A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.
The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.
Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.
Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind.
