Quote of Aristotle - The ultimate value of life depends...
Biography - Aristotle:
Greek philosopher.
Born: -384 - Died: -322
Period:
4th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Born: -384 - Died: -322
Period:
4th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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Quotes about life:
Quotes for: value
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
There is no sense in life a priori. Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the value of it is nothing else but the sense that you choose.
Quotes for: contemplation
Beauty is no quality in things themselves : It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them ; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
Who am I? Subject and object in one — contemplating and contemplated, thinking and thought of. As both must I have become what I am.
The first philosophers were astronomers. The heavens remind man … that he is destined not merely to act, but also to contemplate.
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