Category Aristotle

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.”

Aristotle says:  “Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.”  

Aristotle says:  “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

Aristotle says:  “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”

Aristotle says: “Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.”

Aristotle says:  “Yes the truth is that men’s ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.”

Aristotle says:  “Without virtue, man is most unholy and savage, and worst in regard to sex and eating.”