Aristotle ✓

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[Wikidata] 4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath... | [Wikipedia] Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings span the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that foll

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• The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning. All
• Nature creates nothing without a purpose. Creates
• Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind Body
• Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable. Animates
• Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective. Clear
• When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote… Behave
• Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for. Born
• The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement. Capacities
• Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold Appear
• It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the… Addressing
• Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend. Better
• Youth loves honor and victory more than money. Honor
• Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue Accordance
• It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous. Argued
• Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and… Achieve
• The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing. Ailing
• Every realm of nature is marvelous. Every Realm
• Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency. Deficiency
• Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future Future
• Doubt is the beginning of wisdom Beginning
• Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity. External
• The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in… Action
• Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good. Activity
• If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own… Agent
• The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist. Anger

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