Aristotle Quotes - Page 4

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.
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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
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Philosophy can make people sick.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
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I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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Wit is educated insolence.
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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
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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.
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...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement....
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
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To perceive is to suffer.
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