Aristotle’s Endless Quotes on Life...

Aristotle on Life (Education, Knowledge, Work, Justice, Dignity, Actions, Poverty, Happiness, Friendship, Acceptance, Self-control, etc)

Aristotle ( (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle's writings constitute a first at creating a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics.


“Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.”

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

“The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.”

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”

“Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.”

“It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“Law is mind without reason.”

“To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.”

“All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.”

“Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”

“To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.”

“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.”

“All men by nature desire to know.”

“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”

“The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.”

“God has many names, though He is only one being.”

“What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”

“Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may ... meet with great misfortunes.”

“Man is by nature a civic animal.”

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.”

“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”

“To perceive is to suffer.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”

“Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.”

“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”

“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.”

“Melancholy men are of all others the wittiest.”

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

“Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.”

“We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.”

“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”

“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.”

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; the hardest victory is the victory over self.”

“Quality is not an act. It is a habit.”

“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life.”

“Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.”

HOW TO BE AN EXISTENTIALIST

Or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and
Stop Making Excuses
By Gary Cox

Gary Cox has just put into context the perfect philosophical book in a layman language, the language we all can comprehend. This tiny smart book with only 115 pages is mainly directed to those of us who have blurry vision in the field of Existentialism. Cox make fun of the reputation existentialism has for being gloomy and pessimistic, exposing it what it really is – an honest, uplifting and potentially life-changing philosophy! Dr.Cox couldn’t have been concise and clearer than this.

The author also is criticizing our contemporary excuse culture, urging us to face the hard existential truths of the human condition. He uncompromisingly counsel us to become tougher and more dignified, less grumbling and irresponsible, to stop chasing the rainbows and making excuses and instead to get a grip and get real. By revealing that we are all inescapably free and responsible – ‘condemned to be free’, as Sartre says – he aims to empower the reader with a sharp sense that we are each the master of our own destiny.

Gary Cox wrote his PhD on Sartre. He is the author of several books on Sartre and existentialism. He lives in Somerset where he teaches philosophy and writes.

WHY WE LOVE?

The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
Helen Fisher

“If you want flashes and particular experiences of romantic love, read novels. If you want to understand this central quality of human nature, read Why We love.” –E.O. Wilson, university research professor emeritus, Harvard University, author of Consilience

Who among us, humans, especially those who have been in love that have not ever asked themselves regarding those weird feelings that come with the so called falling in love high, why do we feel that way? And most of the times we were left completely wondering, without knowing what was going one within us. I had always felt that way, until the day I came across this paragraph while I was reading a random magazine, it was titled: “love addiction,” I was like WOW, “love addiction? Yes,
“Love addiction”
A brain research out in the U.K confirms that the love-bitten brain is active in the same centres that generate drug highs. Love is indeed addictive and uses the same neural mechanisms that are activated by drug dependency.

Then they proceeded to recommend books to understand love much better:

-Why We Love: the nature and chemistry of romantic love, by Helen Fisher

_Speed Dating, by Helen Fisher

It is how I discovered this fantastic and comprehensive book about love (crazy feeling). Helen meticulously gathered in details all the necessary information needed to understand romantic love, not only from the humanistic perspective, but inclusively all the living things; from the tiniest asexual plant until the last mammal. In this book you will find stuff, such as “What Wild Ecstasy”: Being in love; Animal Magnetism; Chemistry of Love; Web of Love: Lust, Romance, and Attachment; Why We Love: The Evolution of Romantic Love, and much more… This book will leave you wanting more, it is really super informative. I have not ever read a book full of stamina like this one, Why We Love?



Helen Fisher, PhD., is one of the country’s most prominent anthropologists. Prior to becoming a research professor at Rutgers University, she was a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Dr. Fisher has conducted extensive research on the evolution, expression, and chemistry of love. Her two most recent books, The First Sex and Anatomy of Love, were New York Times Notable Books. She grow up in Connecticut and lives in New York City.

A NEW EARTH, Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle

A New Earth is the perfect book that teaches us how to open our eyes in order to have a much clearer look at the meaning of our own life. Only someone with the kind of neurons Eckhart Tolle has, is capable of coming up with such an insightful piece of print. This book is beyond reflection, and one of the genuine books ever read, it is real.

Tolle calls his book this amazing book “the power of now” and he breaks in down in 10 chapter for its better understanding; Chapter One: The Flowering of Human Consciousness, Chapter Two: Ego: The Current State of Humanity, Chapter Three: The Core of Ego, Chapter Four: Role-playing: The many Faces of the Ego, Chapter Five: The Pain-Body, Chapter Six: Breaking Free,
Chapter Seven: Finding Who you Truly Are, Chapter Eight: The Discovering of Inner Space, Chapter Nine: Your Inner Purpose, and finally Chapter Ten: Anew Earth.

One of the greatest insights Eckhart appoints is that most of the things we have/get in this world come in forms and they are temporary, not permanent; meaning we should not get very attach to them, and he put it this way: “This, too, will pass.”

Eckhart Tolle is a contemporary spiritual teacher who travels extensively, taking his message through the world.

THE SECRET

“Without exception, every human being has the ability to transform any weakness or suffering into strength, power, perfect peace, health, and abundance.” – The Secret

The Secret Universal Law of Attraction written by Rhonda Byrne has been an international sensation since the publication of the Hardcover Book and the Film (DVD) in 2006. It is one of the best self-help series ever exposed in the new millennium, this incredible inspirational teaching phenomenon, undoubtedly generates a great deal of positive thinking, it is one of those books that make you think and reflect. Byrne is such a brilliant, savvy and a thoughtful author, it is hard to image how she managed to wrap up something like this, with all the quantity of knowledge and thoughts as The Secret..

There have been many versions of The Secret since the 2006, but The Secret Daily Teaching 2008 version is more appealing to me, because it conveys the collections of ideas of the greatest thinkers of the past, plus the author own insights about life, in a concise and conversational manner.

I always highly recommend The Secret Daily Teaching Book and The Secret, Audio Edition (CD) to those who like to have a reflective look at their inner selves. The Secret Daily teaching comes with 365 brand new insights that build on the secret’s powerful truths, your knowledge of the law of attraction is about to expand far beyond what you can imagine. More joy, abundance and blessing-every single day.

“Whatever feelings you have within you are attracting your tomorrow.

Worry attracts more worry. Anxiety attracts more anxiety. Unhappiness attracts more unhappiness. Dissatisfaction attracts more dissatisfaction.

AND

Joy attracts more joy. Happiness attracts more happiness. Peace attracts more peace. Gratitude attracts more gratitude. Kindness attracts more kindness. Love attracts more love.” –The secret, page 3


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Books' Quotes for a Beautiful Reading

“Books are humanity in print.” –Barbara W. Tuchman

“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the
shelves.” –Gilbert Highet

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” –Abraham Lincoln

“Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.” –William Feather

“Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.” –Unknown

“The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.” –Theodore Parker

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” –Garrison Keillor

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.” –Henry David Thoreau

“He that loves a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.” – Isaac Barrow

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” –Marcus Tullius

“Books give not wisdom where there none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.” –Elizabeth Hardwick

“Read the best book first or you might not have a chance to read them all.” –Henry David Thoreau

“A well-composed book is like a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”- Caroline Gordon

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.” –William Styron

“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.” –Oprah Winfrey

“A book is the only immortality.” –Rufus Choate

“If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it’s great, it should be read at least three times.” –Anatole Broyard

“Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.” –Heinrich Heine

“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.” Oscar Wilde