Quotes of: Aristotle Keyword

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

The Philosophy of Aristotle

People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

Lakhdar Brahimi

When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure - but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure.

The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect th...

The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.

Mortimer Adler

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

Alfred Marshall

I think adversity magnifies behavior. Tend to be a control freak? You'll become more controlling. Eat for comfort? You'll eat more. And on the positive, if you tend to focus on solutions and celebrate small successes, that's what you'll do in adversi...

The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

I had everything I could possibly want -- yet I was failing to appreciate it. Bogged down in petty complaints and passing crises, weary of struggling with my own nature, I too often failed to comprehend the splendor of what I had.

The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

We have then, in the first part of The Faerie Queene, four of the seven deadly sins depicted in the more important passages of the four several books; those sins being much more elaborately and powerfully represented than the virtues, which are oppos...

Spenser's Faerie queene: An interpretation

I was fifteen. I was bored. I was miserable.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.

Jonathan V. Last

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

Robert South

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Isaac Newton

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God." Aristotle

Bruce Wayne Sullivan

I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack.

Louis Susman

There are worst things in life than kissing boys

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis.

Pierre Salinger

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.

J. Paul Getty

The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.

Charles Van Doren

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Simeon Strunsky