I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“Sometime in the early 1920s, Keynes outlined a book he planned to call “Essays on the Economic Future of the World” (figure… — David Roth Singerman Copy Share Image
“Amicus Plato — amicus Aristoteles — magis amica veritas. ( Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth .)” — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“Holding as we do that, while knowledge of any kind is a thing to be honoured and prized, one kind of it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“But it will be asked: What is the force and power of the blessings and curses of men, even if these men… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“This is the middle. Things have had time to get complicated, messy, really. Nothing is simple anymore... This is the thick of… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“[On Socrates] My decision to prove reincarnation to the sophomoric cavemen of Athens, quite possibly, was the best decision I made for… — Alejandro C. Estrada Copy Share Image
I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis. — Pierre Salinger Copy Share Image
“For Aristotle, friendship in its highest form has a political or civic dimension. We love our friends not just because we like… — Jules Evans Copy Share Image
“My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato rather than Aristotle's." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
It's fair to say that Wikipedia has spent far more time considering the philosophical ramifications of categorization than Aristotle and Kant ever… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Pith penting raw for the modern mottle Invented by the pen of Jango Aristotle Couplet by Mk Bhutta” — Lecturer M K Bhutta Poet Copy Share Image
“I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color-line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas , where… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Final Cause lives beyond your goals—the sake for which you make goals in the first place. You don’t work for work’s sake.… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
“The God of St. Thomas and Dante is a God Who loves, the god of Aristotle is a god who does not… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“ Aristotle ... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious...” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. Aristotle speaks plainly to this purpose, saying, 'that the institution of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“We must consider also whether soul is divisible or is without parts, and whether it is everywhere homogeneous or not; and if… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I guess I didn't have it so bad.Maybe everybody didn't love me,but i wasn't one of those kids that everyone hated,either. I… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
'Matisse and Picasso' is a little like Plato after Socrates. Socrates only taught in words. He didn't write. And after that, you… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
“Nature is our book," [Aristotle] would say. "It is the most sacred text we have. Line by line, reason will unlock the… — J.L. Taylor Copy Share Image
“I thought it might be a great thing to be the air. I could be something and nothing all at the same… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
