Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.
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For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I'd like to be known as 'The Big Aristotle' because Aristotle once said, 'Excellence is not a singular act; it's a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.'
I would like to be refered to as 'The Big Aristotle'.
For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
Basically, Aristotle believed that every time you behaved unkind and immorally - performing actions your soul was not proud of - you tarnished your soul. The worst shape your soul became in, the worst shape your mood and spirit.
The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
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