Tag: Aristotle

Aristotle

It is clear, then, that according to the most authoritative opinion wisdom is the greatest of goods. We ought, therefore, not to flee philosophy, if it is, as we think,

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Aristotle

Believe that man’s happiness lies not in the magnitude of his possessions but in the proper condition of his soul. Even the body is not called blessed because it is

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Aristotle

Every realm of nature is marvellous: and as Heraclitus, when the strangers who came to visit him found him warming himself at the furnace in the kitchen and hesitated to

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Aristotle

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. (Poetics)

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Aristotle

He who exercises his reason and cultivates it seems to be both in the best state of mind and most dear to the gods. For if the gods have any

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