Actual life Quote by Aristotle Download Open image “Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.” — Aristotle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Actual life Aim Comedy Humor Life Men Tragedy
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
“comedy and comic satisfaction thrive on things that do not exactly add up. They thrive on these discrepancies as a source of pleasure rather… — Alenka Zupančič Copy Share Image
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Comedy is an intellectual affair, and deals chiefly with logic. Tragedy is an emotional affair, and deals chiefly with value. Horace Walpole once said… — James Kern Feibleman Copy Share Image
The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“On the other side of graduation was her actual life, the slow narrowing of possibilities that would catch her and freeze her in a… — Ling Ma Copy Share Image
“Perchance, dear reader, you will then believe that nothing is stranger and madder than actual life, and that this is all that the poet… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; whereas, the experience gained from actual life is of… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians. Actual life… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel understood.” — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained form actual life is of the… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“It is essential that a work of art should be self-consistent, that an artist should consciously or unconsciously draw a circle beyond which he… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of… — Polybius Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they… — John Berger Copy Share Image
