Aristotle Quotes - Page 13

• The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

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  Men, Differences, Ignorant

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• Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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  Loneliness, Being Alone, Solitude

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• If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.

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  Character, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.69, Aeterna Press

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• The complete man must work, study and wrestle.

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  Men, Study

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• Happiness is a sort of action.

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  Happiness, Action

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• Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

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  Educational, Teaching, Justice

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• The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

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  Believe, Men, Ideas

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.451, Princeton University Press

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• It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

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  Ignorance, Men, Self

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• Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.

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  Feelings

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• A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

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  Men, Ought

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.244, Wordsworth Editions

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• A promise made must be a promise kept.

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  Promise, Made

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• A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

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  Men, Mind, Littles

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• The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are truly citizens, ought to participate in its advantages.

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  Views, Government, Citizens

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.71, Cambridge University Press

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• Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

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  Nature, Causes, Chance

  Aristotle (2016). “Rhetoric”, p.54, Aristotle

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• It is no easy task to be good.

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  Philosophy, Educational, Tasks

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2602, Delphi Classics

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• When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.

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  Divinity, Intimate, Lacking Something

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• Either a beast or a god.

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  God, Beast

  Politics bk. 1, 1253a

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• A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

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  Freedom, Exercise, Men

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• The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.

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  Hands, Unions, Littles

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• The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

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  Beautiful, Black And White, Color

  Aristotle, George Maximilian Anthony Grube, Donald J. Zeyl (1958). “On Poetry and Style”, p.14, Hackett Publishing

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• That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

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  Impossible, Improbable

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• PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

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  Character, Plot, Action

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• Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

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  Genius, Madness, Sanity

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• Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

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  Mean, Desire, Purpose

  Aristotle (1879). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”

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• If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

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  Art, Atheism, Woods

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