Aristotle
Αριστοτέλης (Aristotelēs; Aristotle) (384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was a Greek thinker and scientist.
Sourced quotes
- "He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."[1]
- "I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies."[2]
- Simple: Someone who does not let his desires stop him seems to me to have a stronger mind (less fear) than someone who does not let his enemies stop him.
- "In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."[3]
- Simple: In every thing of nature, there is something to make a person wonder and feel good.
- "Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."[4]
- Simple: When a person has bad luck, the person finds out which of their friends are not really friends.
- "How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms."[5]
- Simple: It is a large number of arguments that the people arguing could have made smaller into just a small number of sentences, if they had not been afraid to take the words they were using and explain the meaning of each word.
References
- ↑ Motivational Quotes and Inspirational Quotes by Aristotle
- ↑ Florilegium, Joannes Stobaeus
- ↑ Parts of Animals
- ↑ Eudemian Ethics
- ↑ Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our time by Laurence J. Peter. Bantam books, 1977. p. 24.
Other websites
Aristotle on Wikipedia
Aristotle on Wikimedia Commons
Works by Aristotle on the English Wikisource