Aristotle Quotes - Page 27

• Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

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  Unique, Acorns, Fulfilled

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• 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

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• It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

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  Daily Tasks, Tyrants, People

  "Politics" by Aristotle, Book V, (1313b.16),

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• Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

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  Rivers, People, Environmental

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• Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

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  Men, Good Man, Doe

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• There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.

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  Life, Spring, Men

  "Rhetoric", II. 15. Par, III in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

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  Past, Times Past, Deprived

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• The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

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  Wine, Men, Young

  Aristotle (1886). “The Rhetoric of Aristotle”

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• A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.

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  Happiness, Mean, Finals

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

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• Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

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  Party, Mean, Thinking

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Politics”, p.143, Aeterna Press

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• The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

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  Eye, Writing, Genius

  Aristotle (2015). “Poetics”, p.46, Xist Publishing

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• ... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in goodness because of their association. They seem even to become better men by exercising their friendship and improving each other; for the traits that they admire in each other get transferred to themselves.

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  Exercise, Men, People

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• Man by Nature desires to know.

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  Men, Desire, Knows

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• All things are full of gods.

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  All Things

  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.1984, Modern Library

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• Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

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  Philosophical, Character, Mean

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.26, Aeterna Press

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• Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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  Philosophical, History, Poetry

  "Poetics". Book by Aristotle, 1451b, 6, 335 BCE.

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• A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

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  Men, Bravery, Clear

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• But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

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  Government, People, What If

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.98, Aristotle

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• Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Art

  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”

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• Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

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  Events, Statistics, Should

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.473, Simon and Schuster

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• For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

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  Summer, Blessed, Men

  Nicomachean Ethics, bk.1, ch.7,1098 (translated by Sir David Ross).

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• Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.

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  Mean, Men, Gains

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• The structural unity of the parts is such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and dis­turbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference is not an organic part of the whole.

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  Differences, Unity, Absence

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

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• To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

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  Sad, Suicide, Pain

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• Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.

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  Two, Soul, Body

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