Activity Quote by Aristotle Download Open image “... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.” — Aristotle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activity Integrity Kind Principles Substance Words of wisdom
I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible. — George Polya Copy Share Image
There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
“No sort of activity is likely to be lasting if it is not founded on self-interest, that's a universal principle, a philosophical principle” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be touched. Therefore passivity and… — Wilhelm Von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand. — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. I maintain also that substances,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. — Gero Miesenbock Copy Share Image
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
