A Quotes
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“Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“Arise, my soul, arise; shake off thy guilty fears; The bleeding sacrifice in my behalf appears:
Before the throne my surety stands, Before the throne my surety stands, my name is written on His hands.”
Source: Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book
“Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause. Remember your reproaches to those who are filled with foolishness all through the day. Listen to our prayers, for foxes have arisen seeking to destroy the vineyard whose winepress you alone have trod.”
“Arise, soldiers of Christ, throw away the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.”
“Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.”
Source: The Hour Of God: Art of living
“Arising there, a china cabinet, its gifts enclosed in a hug.
Atop a pedestal table, hand-sanded and love-stained,
Mom's Christmas cactus trails and cascades in forest greens
awaiting pink-winged petals alighting in season, a crescendo of bloom framed an autumn-light meandering through remembrance like a dream.”
Source: organic
“Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.”
“Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.”
“Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.”
Source: Language and the Study of Language Twelve Lectures on the Principles of Linguistic Science William Dwight Whitney
“Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.”
Source: Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine
“Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.”
“Aristocracy has three successive stages: the age of superiority, the age of privilege, and the age of vanity. Once through with the first, it degenerates into the second, and dies out in the third.”
“Aristocracy is a relative thing. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way places where the son of an upholsterer is the arbiter of fashion and reigns over a court like any young Prince of Wales.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove
“Aristocracy is always cruel.”
Source: No Slave-Hunting in the Old Bay State: An Appeal to the People and Legislature of Massachusetts -- Including, Toussaint L'Ouverture
“Aristocracy is an atmosphere; it is sometimes a healthy atmosphere; but it is very hard to say when it becomes an unhealthy atmosphere. You can prove that a man is not the son of a king, or that he is not the delegate of a definite number of people. But you cannot prove that a man is not a gentleman.”
“Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.”
Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
“Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.”
“Aristocracy means ‘rule of the best’, and I can’t think of any company in which Chingford would be counted as best, including the average gaol. Yet the hereditary principle demands we grant power, authority, and vast swathes of land to a man who couldn’t run a whelk stall if you gave him a copy of How To Run A Whelk Stall with corners turned down to mark the good bits.”
Source: Subtle Blood
“Aristocracy naturally leads the human mind to the contemplation of the past, and fixes it there. Democracy, on the contrary, gives men a sort of instinctive distaste for what is ancient. In this respect aristocracy is far more favorable to poetry; for things commonly grow larger and more obscure as they are more remote; and, for this two-fold reason, they are better suited to the delineation of the ideal.”
Source: Democracy in America
“Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.”
“Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.”
“Aristocratic depression has this cosmic dimension to it, where it's asking these big questions about, "Why?" "What is the purpose of all this?" Neuroses of the middle class is the banishment of aristocratic depression, because it's kind of this obsession with quotidian detail that pushes these larger questions away.”
“Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra. They just ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a real aristocrat knows that he is always right. It's not vanity, you understand, it's built-in absolute certainty. They may sometimes be as mad as a hatful of spoons, but they are always definitely and certainly mad.”
Source: Snuff
“Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.”
Source: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state
“Aristocrats have heirs; the poor have children; the rest keep dogs.”
“Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.”
“Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.”
“Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.”
Source: The Collected Works
“Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
“Aristophanes, in Plato's "Symposium", is purported to suggest that human form was not always as it is today:
Originally, humans were spherical, with four arms, four legs, and two faces on either side of a single head. (In evolutionary terms, it's hard to see the advantage of this construction.) Such was their hubris that they dared to challenge the gods themselves. Zeus, in his wisdom, split the upstarts in two, each half becoming a distinct entity.
Since then, men and women have been running around in a panic, searching for their lost counterparts, in a desire to be whole again.
(Plato makes clear what he thinks of this theory by having Socrates casually dismiss it. We should at least give some credit to Aristophanes for originality.)”
Source: Asterios Polyp
“Aristotele credeva che la regina non fosse una femmina ma un maschio, e dunque un re, e che le operaie si sviluppassero a partire da una sostanza progenitrice che gli adulti raccoglievano dai fiori e non da uova deposte dalla regina.”
Source: Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive
“Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.”
“Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.”
Source: The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World
“Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony ... If our hearts were as pure, as chaste, as snowy as Pythagoras' was, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars.”
“Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.”
“Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious...”
“Aristotle affirms that philosophy did not pass from Greece to Gaul, that is to the Druids, but was received from them.”
Source: The Philosophy of Ancient Britain
“Aristotle and many others say men have more teeth than women; it is no harder for anyone to test this than it is for me to say it is false, since no one is prevented from counting teeth.”
“Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“Aristotle called Final Cause—the sake of which a thing is done.”
“Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.”
Source: Lectures on Logic
“Aristotle compiled the first known comprehensive list of all winners of the Olympic Games. Which means that quite probably he was sat in a bar with Plato, muttering 'Go on then, give me any year you like and I'll tell you who won the four-man bobsleigh.'”
“Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked.”
“Aristotle declared that, “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Does the intrinsic tension between opposing ideas create a lamplight of stereoscopic vision? Does the mental friction generated by antinomy, a contradiction between two apparently equally valid principles or between inferences correctly drawn from such principles, lead to war within the mind or does the natural rasping of abrasive thoughts spur the mind to create soothing metaphorical thoughts in order to attain conceptual peace?”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.”
“Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.”
Source: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes
“Aristotle didn't have a problem with abortion," she says.
"Oh, well, good, that's a comfort," I say.”
Source: The Bookstore
“Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.”