Category Aristotle

Aristotle says:  “The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.”

Aristotle says:  “The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.”

Aristotle says:  “The greater the number of owners, the less the respect for common property. People are much more careful of their personal possessions than of those owned communally; they exercise care over common property only in so far as…

Aristotle says:  “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

Aristotle says:  “Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”

Aristotle says:  “Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”

Aristotle says:  “Now since shame is a mental picture of disgrace, in which we shrink from the disgrace itself and not from its consequences, and we only care what opinion is held of us because of the people who form…

Aristotle says:  “Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life.”

Aristotle says:  “Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way… you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.”

Aristotle says:  “Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbor to have…