A Commonplace Book

Category: Aristotle...

  • Hope is a waking dream. (Aristotle)
  • Education is the best provision for old age. (Aristotle)
  • To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. (Aristotle)
  • Nature does nothing uselessly. (Aristotle)
  • Well begun is half done. (Aristotle)
  • the fact that Aristotle surveyed the whole of human knowledge as it was known in the Mediterranean world in his day, especially seen in Aristotle's classifications
  • Aristotle opened a rival institution, The Lyceum, to Plato's Academy many years after Plato's death
  • After the death of Alexander the Great, who had been his pupil, Aristotle felt himself in danger and left Athens for the island of Euboea in order to save the Athenians from sinning twice against philosophy -- referring to Socrates as the earlier victim
  • Aristotle's personal happiness is reflected in his On Philosophy
  • 2300 years ago, Aristotle concluded that, more than anything else, men and women seek happiness
  • Aristotle noted that different musical melodies, modes, and rhythms have different effects on the listener and music has the power of forming character
  • Aristotle is considered the "father of biology" for his classification of animals and for performing the first know biology experiments, dissecting plants and animals and studying the chick in its egg.

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