Branches Quote by Aristotle

It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one…

— Colin Maclaurin

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has…

— Wendell Berry

“If we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental and necessary…

— Wendell Berry

There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are…

— Aristotle

At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there…

— Aristotle

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and…

— Aristotle

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

Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends…

— Aristotle

“The branches do not support the root. But the root supports the branches.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?…

— George Gissing

You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if…

— Pablo Neruda

Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in…

— William Mountford