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Present Quotes by Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
- 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…
- Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also…
- The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are…
- Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there…
- 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…
- 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…
More Present Quotes
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of… — Dalai Lama
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt