Aristotle Quotes About Soul

• Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Beach, Ocean
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  We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

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  Philosophical, Soul And Body, Figures

  "Aristotle's Psychology". Book by Aristotle, translated by E. Wallace, p. 61, 1882.

• Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

  In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers' bk. 5, sect. 20

• Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

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  Passion, Soul, Kind

• Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

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  Soul, Quality, Function

• Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

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  Music, Passion, Character

• The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Yoga

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

• Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

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  Happiness, Expression, Joy

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

• The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement.

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  Animal, Two, Soul

  Aristotle (2015). “The Complete Aristotle”, p.1108, Booklassic

• No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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  Philosophical, Insanity, Soul

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

• Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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  Love, Life, Positive

  Attributed to Aristotle in Diogenes Laertius "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" translated by C. D. Yonge and Henry G. Bohn (p. 188), 1853.

• Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.

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  Character, Soul, Theatre

• The soul never thinks without a picture.

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Soul

• Memory is the scribe of the soul.

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  Memories, Soul, Scribes

• If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.

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  Men, Two, Soul

• The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

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  Lying, Heart, Perfection

• For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

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  Eye, Soul, Bats

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2327, Delphi Classics

• Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.

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  Thinking, Knowing, Soul

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.1497, Catholic Way Publishing

• Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.

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  Lying, Two, Soul

• Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

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  Crush, Pain, Adversity

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

• Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

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  Soul, Virtue, Nicomachean Ethics

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.30

• Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

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  Passion, Opposites, Soul

• The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.

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  Heart, Soul, Brain

• This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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  Home, Two, Soul

• These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul.

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  Two, Soul, Half

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.146, Wordsworth Editions

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