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Kind Quotes by Aristotle
- Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by…
- Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling…
- Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.
- ... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one,…
- So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which…
- The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.
- If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a…
- It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we…
- ... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.
- Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats…
- 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…
- Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.
- Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.
- 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…
- In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are…
- We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something…
- The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final…
- For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such…
- So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake…
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- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this… — Rowan Atkinson
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood
- On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France… — John James Audubon
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine
- You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle! — Dan Aykroyd