Quotes tagged ‘Aristotle’

“It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs.”

— Aristotle, sacred-texts.com

“Brisco County Jr.: Which one of you is Aristotle Poole? Socrates Poole: That's Socrates Poole. Brisco County Jr.: Oh, sorry. I guess that's a common mistake. Socrates Poole: Not at all. Brisco County Jr.: Well, it is if you flunked Greek philosophy two years in a row.”

— David Simkins, Carlton Cuse, Brisco County, Jr., Bruce Campbell, imdb.com

“Aristotle approves of food, drink and sex (all in moderation – he’s big on moderation); he believes leisure is more important than work; that we all have innate talents and that we don’t peak until we’re 49. What’s not to like?”

— Lisa Allardice, theguardian.com

“In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.”

— Timothy Leary, books.google.com

“The Nicomachean Ethics is designed to aid the well-educated but not yet virtuous individual in achieving the highest attainable human good.”

— Allan Silverman, amazon.com

“The point is best made by Aristotle, who supposedly asked, ‘Would you rather be a happy pig or an unhappy human?’ HSPs prefer the good feeling of being very conscious, very human, even if what we are conscious of is not always cause for rejoicing.”

— Elaine N. Aron, amazon.com