"Therefore, even the lover of myth is..." - Quote by Aristotle

“All learning is derived from things previously known.”

“Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.”

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

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”

“The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.”

“Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?”

“Lie on your back and look at the stars.”

“Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.”

“Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.”