Quotes of: Aristotle Keyword

If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al, for sure, but not if we simply uproot them from their epoch and stamp them into 21st-century soil.

Julian Baggini

My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato rather than Aristotle's." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]

The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries

Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.

The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for centuries after that there would be countless imitators including oltaire, Michelangelo, and, muc...

This is a Book

Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise.

The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

I couldn't exactly storm away in anger. I'd just have to close my eyes and shut out the universe.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

I thought of what my mom had said. "You talk like a man." It was easier to talk like a man than to be one.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. 'The control of the appetites by right reason,' is how he defined it.

Tim O'Reilly

When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things.

Ken Burns

Our goals and what we hope to achieve by moving to food assistance is even in supporting the crisis needs of the most vulnerable people, we provide them with the capacity to be more resilient to the next shock.

Ertharin Cousin

The People in this Town began to inquire my Business, and because I did not readily inform them, they began to suspect me, and said, that I was come to settle the Indian's Land and they knew I should never go Home again Safe.

Christopher Gist

Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it.

Henry Laurens

But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes ...

Mitchell Reiss

Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.

Cofer Black

Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.

Gilbert Murray

Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.

Gilbert Murray