Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. -Aristotle Time
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. -Aristotle Art
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle Education
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. -Aristotle Poetry
We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him. -Aristotle Respect
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. -Aristotle Poetry
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. -Aristotle Society
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. -Aristotle Art
