The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance – Aristotle

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold – Aristotle

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

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness – Aristotle

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons – Aristotle

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more – Aristotle