Quotes

The prideful, rational mind, comfortable with its certainty, enamoured of its own brilliance, is easily tempted to ignore error, and to sweep dirt under

With their capacity for aggression strait-jacketed within a too-narrow morality, those who are only or merely compassionate and self-sacrificing (and naïve and exploitable) cannot

Before the dawn of the scientific worldview, reality was construed differently. Being was understood as a place of action, not a place of things.31

Chaos is where we are when we don’t know where we are, and what we are doing when we don’t know what we are

If you cease to utter falsehoods and live according to the dictates of your conscience, you can maintain your nobility, even when facing the

“Facts are stupid things, until brought into conjunction with some general law.” It was a great and common fallacy to suppose that an encyclopedic

Real happiness, Aristotle believed, comes from a continuous effort to become the best possible version of yourself. libido, courage, anger, how we treat other

At the beginning of Eudemian Ethics, Aristotle quotes a line of wisdom literature inscribed on an ancient stone on the sacred island of Delos.

The emphasis on the connection between happiness and virtuous action is one of the fundamental differences between Aristotle’s recipe for happiness and that of

If I couldn’t come to work in the morning I’d feel less human. I wouldn’t know how to spend my time. I wouldn’t feel