Category Aristotle

Aristotle says:  “It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.”

Aristotle says:  “It is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.”

Aristotle says:  “It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.”

Aristotle says:  “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”

Aristotle says:  “Indeed, it is evident that the mere passage of time itself is destructive rather than generative … because change is primarily a ‘passing away.’ So it is only incidentally that time is the cause of things coming into…

Aristotle says:  “If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.”

Aristotle says:  “I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.”

Aristotle says:  “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”

Aristotle says:  “He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.”

Aristotle says:  “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”