Aristotle Quotes - Page 32

• The gods too are fond of a joke.

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  Inspirational, Life, God

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• Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

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  Inspirational, Goal, Project Management

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• We must become just be doing just acts.

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  Philosophy, Educational, Literature

  Aristotle, (2014). “Aristotle's Ethics: Writings from the Complete Works”, p.242, Princeton University Press

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• Art takes nature as its model.

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  Art, Creativity, Models

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  Change in all things is sweet.

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  Change, Sweet, Philosophical

  Plato, Aristotle (2012). “Gorgias and Rhetoric”, p.173, Hackett Publishing

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• Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good."

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  Goal, Meaning Of Life, Done

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, circa 349 BC.

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• Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

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  Order, Doe, Talent

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• In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

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  Writing, Speak, Easy

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• Greed has no boundaries

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  Greed, Boundaries, Modern

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• Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.

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  Way, May, Wealth

  Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1823). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.167

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• Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

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  Baby, Speech, Easy

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• These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion The second is that of the barbarians, which is a hereditary despotic government in accordance with law. A third is the power of the so-called Aesynmete or Dictator; this is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual.

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  Kings, Government, Law

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3028, Delphi Classics

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• Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

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  Writing, Character, Giving

  "On the Art of Poetry".

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• You'll understand what life is if you think about the act of dying. When I die, how will I be different from the way I am right now? In the first moments after death, my body will be scarcely different in physical terms than it was in the last seconds of life, but I will no longer move, no longer sense, nor speak, nor feel, nor care. It's these things that are life. At that moment, the psyche takes flight in the last breath.

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  Life, Moving, Thinking

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• Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that it should be public, and not private - not as at present, when every one looks after his own children separately, and gives them separate instruction of the sort which he thinks best; the training in things which are of common interest should be the same for all. Neither must we suppose that any one of the citizens belongs to himself, for they all belong to the state, and are each of them a part of the state, and the care of each part is inseparable from the care of the whole.

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  Education, Children, Thinking

  Aristotle, Hugh Griffith (2009). “Aristotle”, p.333, Collector's Library

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• How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

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  Argument, Disputes, Term

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• Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

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  Imagination, Perception

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• Aristotle said: "Evil brings men together."

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  Men, Evil, Hatred

  "Fictional character: Jason Gideon". "Criminal Minds". Season 2, Episode 13: "No Way Out", January 17, 2007.

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• The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.

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  Happiness, Contemplation, Divine

  Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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• The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the parts of the body or of any other divisible whole are distinct, or whether though distinguishable in thought as two they are inseparable in reality, like the convex and concave of a curve, is a question of no importance for the matter in hand.)

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  Reality, Curves, Hands

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

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• Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

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  Humor, Examination, Tests

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• There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.

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  Loyalty, Government, Justice

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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• Friendship is essentially a partnership.

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  Love, Friendship, Family

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• The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

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  Science, Engineering, Order

  Aristotle (2012). “The Metaphysics”, p.202, Roger Bishop Jones

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• A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

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  Taken, May, Speech

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.12, Aeterna Press

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