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“What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awareness, chiefly the whole unto itself?”
“I like Aristotle, but I dont agree with his cosmological argument about god.”
“Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did ma...”
“It is not enough to win a war”
“Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.”
“One summer night I fell asleep hoping the world would be different when I woke. In the morning, when I opened my eyes, the world was the same.”
“He is not prone to remember evils, since it is proper to a magnanimous person not to nurse memories, especially not of evils, but to overlook them. He does not speak evil even of his enemies, excep...”
“Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you might as well, if you were going to fight it, b...”
“It is easy to understand that in the dreary middle ages the Aristotelian logic would be very acceptable to the controversial spirit of the schoolmen, which, in the absence of all real knowledge, sp...”
“Holding as we do that, while knowledge of any kind is a thing to be honoured and prized, one kind of it may, either by reason of its greater exactness or of a higher dignity and greater wonderfulne...”
“We must consider also whether soul is divisible or is without parts, and whether it is everywhere homogeneous or not; and if not homogeneous, whether its various forms are different specifically or...”
“Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures.”
“Learning is not child's play”
“as architect of choosing...choose. to. live.awakened. entirely. wholly.wildly powerful,deeply masterful,authentically creative,thriving.this is not a hoped-for possible self.[reminder: this is an i...”
“It's during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
“All human happiness or misery takes the form of action”
“Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.”
“The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is ...”
“And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat”
“Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking”
