Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness

> 2. "Happiness depends upon ourselves."

he's quiet possibly referring to happiness as a relationship (with family, friends, colleagues, citizens etc) rather than just by oneself / isolation / individual. he famously said "man by nature is a political animal" (or social if you prefer)

The level of precision a subject can reach is peculiar to that subject, but it doesn't follow that nothing can be accurately predicated of it:

"It is characteristic of such knowledge [ethics] that it should be deficient in “exactness,” in precision of statement, and closeness of logical concatenation. We must not look for a mathematics of conduct. The subject-matter of Human Conduct is not governed by necessary and uniform laws. But this does not mean that it is subject to no laws."

"[T]he man of education will seek exactness so far in each subject as the nature of the thing admits, it being plainly much the same absurdity to put up with a mathematician who tries to persuade instead of proving, and to demand strict demonstrative reasoning of a Rhetorician."

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8438/8438-h/8438-h.htm

The first quote is not even a quote from Aristotle but from Will Durant’s book, The Story of Philosophy (1926)

Much of this is either simply not Aristotle, or a paraphrase from one of his works incorrectly attributed to another.

My slop meter is pinging.

If you ever wondered, those are among the things that made that single person standing out of the crowd od Humanity for more than two thousands years.<3

  The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

  We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

cf. Why People that Are Often Right Change Their Minds Often, https://fs.blog/some-advice-from-jeff-bezos/

it do be like that

Nice!

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”