Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick – Bruce Lee

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

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world – Aristotle

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous – Aristotle

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