“Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.”

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

“Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct. ”

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”

“A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.”

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

“The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.” (VII)”