For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
Quote by Aristotle
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
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Aristotle Quotes
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
- He who hath many friends hath none.
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Best Quotes
- I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.
- All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
- Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Your secret labour is always your open flavour.
- I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.
- For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism that things can be different.
- Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- A man existence is punishment enough, he can feel lonely, sad and mad sometimes but what makes one a real man is what he stands to be now for the future.
- Great hopes make great men.