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ARISTOTLE QUOTES
Aristotle (384 B.C. - 322 B.C.)
Greek philosopher
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We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
ARISTOTLE, Nicomachean Ethics
As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.
Dramatic action, therefore, is not with a view to the representation of character: character comes in as subsidiary to the actions.
Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.
Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.
Generally, about all perception, we can say that a sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet ring without the iron or gold.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
ARISTOTLE, quoted in Sango Mbella's Sophia's Fire
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Beauty is the gift from God.
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
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