#those

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. ↗

— Aristotle

#most #other #persons #those #useful

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. ↗

— Aristotle

#misfortune #really #shows #those #who

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. ↗

— Aristotle

#hence #history #import #more #nature

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#chance #confront #fears #horror #i

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#been #central #compassion #conformity #doctrine

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#among #common #common denominator #denominator #find

Our party is - we don't have the problems that the other party has. We're not divided. We don't have to worry about, you know, what people are saying on the side or about their affection for the president or - we don't have those problems and we don't have the reinvention convention. ↗

— David Axelrod

#affection #convention #divided #know #other

Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record. ↗

— Randy Bachman

#because #finding #first #first time #going

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

#accomplish #butterflies #creative #creative people #essential

Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#been #cause #effect #exclusively #far