Aristotle
- Country : Greece
- Profession :Philosopher
- DOB: 1923-07-12
Aristotle acknowledged the value of biography as a means to understand human character and virtue. He believed that examining the lives of exceptional individuals could offer insights into ethical and moral lessons. While focusing on virtues and vices, he emphasized the importance of individual actions and decisions in shaping one’s character. Aristotle’s perspective on biography highlighted the significance of studying real-life examples to cultivate moral excellence and personal growth.
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Author: AristotleTrue happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you’re having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn’t grow you as a person.
Author: AristotleYou will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor
Author: AristotleFirst, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end
Author: AristotleHe who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude
Author: AristotleGive a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life
Author: AristotleAt the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose
Author: AristotleBe a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in
Author: AristotleThe most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing
Author: AristotleMan is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms
Author: AristotleIt is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator
Author: AristotleThe many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.
Author: AristotleVirtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency
Author: AristotleMothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own
Author: AristotleOne 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
Author: AristotleAll teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.
Author: AristotleDignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them
Author: AristotleIn the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Author: AristotleThe aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance
Author: AristotleLearning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age
Author: AristotleMasculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny
Author: AristotleAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire
Author: AristotleTo write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
Author: AristotleExcellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Author: AristotleAnybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
Author: AristotleIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it
Author: AristotleCourage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others
Author: Aristotle