philosophy Quotes

The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.

The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.

These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate... ...

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.

No science ever defends its first principles.

The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.