The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Quote by Aristotle
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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Aristotle Quotes
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
- 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.
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
- Education is the best provision for old age.
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