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«It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.»
«It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it»
«Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
Less Than Perfect, realization
«Generally, about all perception, we can say that a sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet ring without the iron or gold»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
impress, iron, perception, receiving, ring, sensible, signet, signets, signet ring, the matter, wax, waxes, waxing
«The generality of men are naturally swayed more by fear than by reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
foulness, generalities, generality, naturally, refrain, refrained, refraining, refrains, reverence, swayed, swaying, sways
«Our account does not rob mathematicians of their science, by disproving the actual existence of the infinite in the direction of increase, in the sense of the untraceable. In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it. They postula»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Mathematics,
Science
| Keywords:
disprove, disproved, disproving, in point of fact, rob, sense of direction, untraceable
«We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
arithmetic, geometrical
«For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.»
«In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make»
«No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all other things in the world»
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