How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.