Author: Charles Van Doren

Quotes

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.

- Charles Van Doren

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

- Charles Van Doren

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

- Charles Van Doren

The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.

The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.

- Charles Van Doren

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