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“Each type of activity produces the corresponding sort of person”
― The Nicomachean Ethics
― The Nicomachean Ethics
“The same distinction marks off Tragedy from Comedy; for Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. III”
― Poetics
― Poetics
“Who, however, is in doubt ‘and’ awe (thaumázein) about a matter doesn’t believe in the thing to begin with. That is why the friend of Stories (mŷthos) is also in a certain way a philosopher; because the Story arises out of awe.’ (Aristotle’s Metaphysics: Book I. Part II)”
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“We laugh at inferior or ugly individuals, because we feel a joy at feeling superior to them.”
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“Excellence is not an act, but a habit.”
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