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  • Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Art Quotes , Father Quotes
  • If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Art Quotes , Mean Quotes
  • Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Art Quotes , Mean Quotes
  • The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Art Quotes , Drinking Quotes
  • Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Art Quotes , Nature Quotes
  • The art of leadership . . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. . . . The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belong to one category.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Art Quotes , People Quotes