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Aristotle - From the Activity category:
The quality of life is determined by its activities. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Activity category:
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Aging category:
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Amusement category:
The gods too are fond of a joke. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Art category:
Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Art category:
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Art category:
All art is concerned with coming into being... for art is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Beauty category:
The beautiful is that which is desirable in itself. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Business category:
Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Choices category:
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Desire category:
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Difficulty category:
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Education category:
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Education category:
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Education category:
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Excellence category:
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Excellence category:
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Finishing category:
Art completes what nature cannot bring to a finish. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Friendship category:
What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Genius category:
There was never a genius without a tincture of insanity. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Habit category:
We are what we repeatedly do. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Happiness category:
Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Happiness category:
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Hope category:
Hope is a waking dream. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Humour category:
Wit is educated insolence. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Humour category:
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Impossibilities category:
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Materials category:
The hand is the tool of tools. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Models category:
Art takes nature as its model. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Nature category:
Art takes nature as its model. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Nature category:
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Profession category:
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Purpose category:
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Reality category:
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance, and this, and not the external manner and detail, is true reality. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Solitude category:
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Subject category:
The whole is more than the sum of its parts. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Thinking category:
When you look and see, you don't think. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Thinking category:
The soul never thinks without a picture. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Tones category:
The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Wisdom category:
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. (Aristotle)
Aristotle - From the Words category:
The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul. (Aristotle)
Aristotle Onassis - From the Success category:
The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows. (Aristotle Onassis)
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