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Practicals Quotes by Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in…
- 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…
- Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems,…
- Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics]…
- The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For…
- Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
- Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.
- 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…
- In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not…
- Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest…
- First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods.…
- Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as…
More Practicals Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart… — G. Stanley Hall
- Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power… — Bertrand Russell
- Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of… — Peter Singer
- I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in… — Lord Acton