Browsing Quotes By Aristotle
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 14 Nov 2011 at 2:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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It is possible to fail in many ways… while to succeed is possibly only in one way.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We are what we repeatedly do.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:38 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
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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.
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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:24 PMComments: 1 -
Think as wise men do but speak as the common people do.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The unseemly remark lightly dropped results in conduct of like kind.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not Fortune’s business to make a state sound; that is a task for knowledge and deliberate choice.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Character is the kind of thing which discloses the nature of a choice.
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If someone were to apply exquisitely beautiful colors at random he would find less pleasure than if he had outlined an image in black and white.
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Well-being and ill-being reside in action, and the goal of life is an activity, not a quality.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is admirable, complete and possesses magnitude…effecting through pity and fear the purification of such emotions.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!