Category Quotations

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…

Aristotle says:  “It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.”

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.”