Aristotle Quotes - Page 29

• The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.

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  Soul, Affection, Impression

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• When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.

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  Running, Adventure, Men

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1763, Princeton University Press

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• When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

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  Pursuit Of Happiness, Law, Community

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• ...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

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  Law, Cities, Political

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• The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

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  Philosophy, Educational, Excellence

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• Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.

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  Practice, Virtue

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• The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

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  Gymnastics, People, Principles

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• If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

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  Religious, Men, Thinking

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

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  Thinking, Desire, Divine

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• While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day.

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  Stars, Lying, Night

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• It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

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  Life, Archer, Purpose

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• For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

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  Vices, Lines, Riches

  Aristotle (2015). “Politics”, p.164, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

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  Thinking, Self, Soul

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• We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.

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  Men, Thinking, Nerves

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• A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.

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  Body, Bodies In Motion, Contact

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• We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

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  People, Evil, Second Best

  Aristotle (1983). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.

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  Character, Play, Together

  Aristotle (2016). “Poetics”, p.22, Aristotle

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• Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

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  Men, Politics, Politician

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.4, Wordsworth Editions

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• A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

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  Happiness, Men, Opposites

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3134, Delphi Classics

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• 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

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• In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.

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  Soul, Principles, Different

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Politics”, p.28, Aeterna Press

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• The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the same thing both is and is not, and is bad and good, and that the contents of all other opposite statements are true, because often a particular thing appears beautiful to some and ugly to others, and that which appears to each man is the measure

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  Beautiful, Men, Views

  Aristotle (2016). “Metaphysics”, p.274, Aristotle

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• That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

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  Real, Thinking, Soul

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• Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

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  Intelligent, Dignity, Talent

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• To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

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  Climbing, Insanity, Anarchy

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