Quote of the Day — Aristotle
February 3, 2022
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives. Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle
-384–-322
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-384–-322
Aristotle, ancient history’s most comprehensive thinker, created systematic frameworks for understanding nearly every domain of knowledge that shaped Western civilization for two millennia. Born in Macedonia, he studied under Plato in Athens before founding his own school, the Lyceum, where he pioneered empirical observation and logical reasoning. Unlike Plato’s abstract idealism, Aristotle grounded philosophy in careful observation of the natural world. His contributions span metaphysics, ethics, politics, biology, rhetoric, and logic, with each field bearing his distinctive systematic approach. Aristotle’s virtue ethics—the idea that ethical excellence comes through cultivating good habits and finding the golden mean between extremes—remains influential in…
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Aristotle’s wisdom on excellence closed the February 3, 2022 broadcast, where Lisa Bennett explained how animal rights groups bypass scientific wildlife management to push legislation like Senate Bill 31, burdening ranchers and taxpayers while threatening mule deer populations.
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