Philosophy can make people sick.
Aristotle
Profession: Philosopher Nationality: Greek
The same distinction marks off Tragedy from Comedy; for Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
Wit is educated insolence.
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
Avoid the enthymeme form when you are trying to rouse feeling; for it will either kill the feeling or will itself fall flat: all simultaneous motions tend to cancel each other either completely or partially.
Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.