Quotes of: Aristotle Keyword

They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.

The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

I didn’t think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

I wished it was raining," he said. "I don't need the rain," I said. "I need you.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.

Michael Sandel

The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran all contribute to core goals of U.S. policy in...

Cynthia P. Schneider

In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration.

Mercer Reynolds

Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps... this is ...

Paula Cole

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

Moliere

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

Irving Babbitt

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.

Julien Benda

Homer begged and Rembrandt went bankrupt. Aristotle, who had money for books, his school, and his museum, could not have bought this painting of himself. Rembrandt could not afford a Rembrandt.

Joseph Heller

Barfly Jack: He then proceeds to order an Aristotle of the most ping-pong tiddly in the Nuclear sub.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

David Gale: [while drunk] Socrates was ugly, Plato was fat, and, um, and Aristotle was a prissy dresser!

The Life of David Gale

Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to Descartes, from Aeschylus to Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman - have thought it wise to understand oneself and one's behavio...

Eric Kandel

Of course, women have long exercised influence behind the scenes. A few thousand years ago this drove Aristotle to distraction: 'What difference does it make whether women rule or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same.'

Stacy Schiff