Category Aristotle

Aristotle says: “Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.”

Aristotle says: “The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”

Aristotle says: “For the carpenter’s and the geometer’s inquiries about the right angle are different also; the carpenter restricts himself to what helps his work, but the geometer inquires into what, or what sort of things, the right angle is,…

Aristotle says:  “Educating the head without educating the heart is no education at all”

Aristotle says:  “It is the function of a poet to relate not things that have happened, but things that may happen,”

Aristotle says:  “Equity bids us be merciful to the weakness of human nature; to think less about the laws than about the man who framed them, and less about what he said than about what he meant; not to consider…

Aristotle says: “The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”

Aristotle says: “Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims.”

Aristotle says: “It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational…

Aristotle says: “It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit.”