The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.Aristotle
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.Albert Einstein
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.Aristotle
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.Aristotle
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.Aristotle
The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!Bernard Shaw
