27 August 2014 - ARISTOTLE - FAMOUS QUOTES

ARISTOTLE - FAMOUS QUOTES

384 BC - 322 BC

G'day folks,

Welcome to some wise quotes from a man who lived a long time ago. Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in Stagirus, northern Greece, in 384 BCE. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Change in all things is sweet.
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
To love someone is to identify with them.
Wit is educated insolence.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not easy.
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Hope is a waking dream.
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
Law is order, and good law is good order.
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
The gods too are fond of a joke.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Well begun is half done.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Man is by nature a political animal.
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

 

 

Clancy's comment: Amazingly simple, eh? Today we seem to find something simple and make it as complicated as possible. A good friend of mine, who happens to be one of the golden Greeks of this world, has a dog named Aristotle. Smart man - smart dog. 

Agree with the comments by Mr Branson below.

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