Humanities Lecture
Aristotle was a little man with
eyes like a lizard, and he found a streak
down the midst of things, a smooth place for his feet
much more important than the carved handles
on the coffins of the great.
He said you should put your hand out
at the time and place of need:
strength matters little, he said,
nor even speed.
His pupil, a king's son, died
at an early age. That Aristotle spoke of him
it is impossible to find—the youth was
notorious, a conqueror, a kid with a gang,
but even this Aristotle didn't ever say.
Around the farthest forest and along
all the bed of the sea, Aristotle studied
immediate, local ways. Many of which
were wrong. So he studied poetry.
There, in pity and fear, he found Man.
Many thinkers today, who stand low and grin,
have little use for anger or power, its palace
or its prison—
but quite a bit for that little man
with eyes like a lizard.
poem by William Stafford
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Related quotes
~ Aristotle ~ Niv ~
~ Aristotle ~ Niv ~
Ms. Nivedita
UK
29 September 2010.
Aristotle siphoning ~
Only thing I know
I know nothing.
Niv quipping ~
Why I know everything
Of nothing?
Aristotle viewing ~
It’s we see
By means of eyes.
Niv previewing ~
Eyes can’t see if what
Of we is absentee?
Aristotle employing ~
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind
Niv unemploying ~
How paid jobs bunk and degrade mind?
Aristotle saccharining ~
Change in all things is sweet
Niv bittering ~
For sweetening why change things?
Aristotle teaching ~
Education is the best provision for old age
Niv rejoindering ~
Does education proviso promoter of old age?
Aristotle positing ~
Happiness depends upon ourselves
Niv dis-positing ~
What of ourselves not owning happiness?
Aristotle mystifying ~
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Niv questing ~
Why not marvelousness in every thing in nature?
To Aristotle ~ We owe why?
For Niv ~ We low blow all awe why?
Readers ~ You?
~~~
Copyright reserved by author.
poem by Ms. Nivedita Bagchi Spc. Uk.
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
quote by Bertrand Russell
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them.
quote by Norman Lamm
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
It is possible to fail in many ways... while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Aristotle in Nichomachean Ethics
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.