He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Quote by Aristotle
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Aristotle Quotes
- Nature does nothing in vain.
- 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.
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of 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.
- 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.
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Education is the best provision for old age.
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
- 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.
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