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Activity Quotes by Aristotle
- If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
- Happiness is activity.
- Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative
- For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are…
- ... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one,…
- ... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.
- Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue
- Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good.
- If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul…
- For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good…
- And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical…
- Happiness is a state of activity.
- Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.
- Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the…
- ...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.
- The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.
More Activity Quotes
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- For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
- In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society… — Karl Marx
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen… — Roger Bannister
- Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
- It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully… — Charles Darwin
- Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still… — G. Stanley Hall