Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) is considered the greatest philosopher of all time.

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Aristotle

Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) is considered a giant among classical philosophers, and possibly the greatest philosopher of all time. The Internet is rich in resources about Aristotle and online e-texts of his works.

According to Mortimer Adler, we should study Aristotle because he is the best of the classical philosophers at teaching us about the things we all have in common: change, cause, body, part, whole, one. "Aristotle's thinking began with common sense, but it did not end there. It went much further. It added to and surrounded common sense with insights and understandings that are not common at all. His understanding of things goes deeper than ours and sometimes soars higher. It is, in a word, uncommon common sense." Adler's guide to Aristotle was initially conceived as a children's books. Indeed, he had his 13-year-old and 11-year-old sons read the manuscript as he was writing it, and he took their suggestions. By doing this, he gives us not just a guide to Aristotle, but a guide to common sense.

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Quality is not an act. It is a habit. -Aristotle

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. -Aristotle

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. -Aristotle

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. -Aristotle

...character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion... -Aristotle

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out. -Aristotle

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions. -Aristotle

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. -Aristotle

The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to. -Aristotle

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids. -Aristotle

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self. -Aristotle

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -Aristotle

It is easy to fly into a passion--anybody can do that--but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time with the right object and in the right way--that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it. -Aristotle

Different men seek...happiness in different ways and by different means. -Aristotle

...men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. -Aristotle

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. -Aristotle

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. -Aristotle

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to others. -Aristotle

 

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