“Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.” WayShouldPersonsFoolAngerAngryRight WayRight TimeRight Person Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“You'll understand what life is if you think about the act of dying. When I die, how will I be different from the way I am right now? In the first moments after death, my body will be scarcely different in physical terms than it was in the last seconds of life, but I will no longer move, no longer sense, nor speak, nor feel, nor care. It's these things that are life. At that moment, the psyche takes flight in the last breath.” IfsThinkingWayLifeFeelsFirstsDifferentMomentsBodyCareLastsMovingLife IsDiesSpeakTermDyingRight NowBreathsFlightThat MomentSecondsAfter Death Author:Aristotle
“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 the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.” MenWayPhilosophyMoralVirtueWords Of WisdomCapablePracticalsBest WayTheoreticalSecond BestMoral Virtues Author:Aristotle
“Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.” MenWaySelfActionPlayerBuildingBraveInstanceControlledBuilderHarps Author:Aristotle
“It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).” WayReasonEasyDifficultFailingMissingFailureSucceedMarkOne WayNicomachean Ethics Author:Aristotle
“Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.” MenWayMeanReasonEvilEasyDifficultClassVirtueFailingMissingSucceedMarkVicesOne WayCharacteristicsExcessUnlimitedDefectsNicomachean Ethics Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“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 of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.” MenWayKindCharacterCertainDifferencesYouthProduceOughtHabitVaryNicomachean EthicsSmall Differences Author:Aristotle
“A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.” WayMadeScienceLinesParadoxContinuityIndivisible Author:Aristotle
