Aristotle Quotes - Page 22

• The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

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  Family, Nature, Men

  "Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens".

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• All communication must lead to change

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  Communication

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• Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.

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  Two, Government, Democracy

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

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• It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.

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  Men, Simplicity, Crowds

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

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  Democracy, Oligarchy, Weak

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• There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced. Make a vessel of wax and put it in the sea, fastening its mouth in such a way as to prevent any water getting in. Then the water that percolates through the wax sides of the vessel is sweet, the earthy stuff, the admixture of which makes the water salt, being separated off as it were by a filter.

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  Sweet, Science, Sea

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.583, Princeton University Press

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• Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

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  Soul And Body, Shapes, States

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• There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.

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  Blessed, Excellence, Crafts

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• It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Nichomachean Ethics (c. 330 b.c.).

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• Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.

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  Children, Race, Would Be

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• A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

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  Government, Election, Made

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

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  Inspiring, Teaching, Learning

  "Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics". Books II-IV,

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• Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from the point of view of his craft, categorized as one of its tools. So any piece of property can be regarded as a tool enabling a man to live, and his property is an assemblage of such tools; a slave is a sort of living piece of property; and like any other servant is a tool in charge of other tools.

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  Men, Views, Watches

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• The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

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  True Nature, Highest

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• There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.

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  Character, Mean, Men

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.3615, Modern Library

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• Cruel is the strife of brothers.

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  Brother, Strife

  "Fictional character: Aaron Hotchner". "Criminal Minds". Season 8, Episode 23: "Brothers Hotchner", www.imdb.com. May 22, 2013.

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• To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

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  Inspirational, Hate, Character

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1852, Princeton University Press

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• Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

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  Friends, People, Littles

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.608, Simon and Schuster

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• The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.

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  Happiness, Men, He Man

  Aristotle (1955). “The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.

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  Real, Men, Differences

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2031, Princeton University Press

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• To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

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  Thinking, Justice, Diversity

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• A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

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  Inferiors, Flatterer

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.215, Wordsworth Editions

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• Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

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  Business, Toil, Doe

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• We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.

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  Littles, Our Actions, Habit

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.80

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• 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

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