Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
Profession: Philosopher Nationality: Greek
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
The peculiar circumstances arising out of the fall of the Syracusan tyranny seem to have produced the first practitioners of the art of rhetorical.
He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
By the way, a question is sometimes raised, whether the moral choice or the actions have most to do with Virtue, since it consists in both: it is plain that the perfection of virtuous action requires both: but for the actions many things are required, and the greater and more numerous they are the more.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Happiness is a state of activity.
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms!
Law is mind without reason.
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
How can a man know what is good or best for him, and yet chronically fail to act upon his knowledge?
Again, it is for the sake of the soul that goods external and goods of the body are eligible at all, and all wise men ought to choose them for the sake of the soul, and not the soul for the sake of them.
Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.
