George Barker > George's Quotes

“Be yourself, as no one else can.”
― Stephen Richards

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
― Aristotle

“Happiness is a state of activity.”
― Aristotle

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
― Aristotle, The Philosophy of Aristotle

“All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.”
― Aristotle

“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
― Aristotle

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
― Aristotle

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
― Aristotle

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
― Aristotle

“I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.”
― Aristotle

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
― Aristotle

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
― Aristotle

“W.H. Auden: “Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.”
― Anonymous

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”
― Milan Kundera

“We’ve arranged a society on science and technology in which
nobody understands anything about science and technology, and
this combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is
going to blow up in our faces. I mean, who is running the science and
technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about
it? Science is more than a body of knowledge, it’s a way of thinking. If
we are not able to ask skeptical questions to interrogate those who tell
us something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we’re
up for grabs for the next charlatan political or religious leader who
comes ambling along. It’s a thing that Jefferson lay great stress on.
It wasn’t enough, he said, to enshrine some rights in the Constitution
and the Bill of Rights, the people had to be educated and they have to
practice their skepticism and their education. Otherwise, we don’t run
the government, the government runs us.
—Carl Sagan”
― Carl Sagan