Greek artists, Greek painters, comments: All human actions have one or more of these seven causes...

Greek philosophy & greek artists, greek painters


Yannis Stavrou, Full Moon, Thessaloniki, oil on canvas

Thoughts about human nature...

A dialogue with the ancient greek philosophy...

Aristotle
Quotations

A friend to all is a friend to none.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

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.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

All men by nature desire to know.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.