Aristotle Quotes - Page 35

• Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

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  Passion, Men, Law

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• A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

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  Government, Sovereign, Facts

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

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• If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

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  Freedom, Equality, Democracies Have

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.131, Aristotle

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• The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

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  Life, Gratitude, Courage

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, I, 1101a, www.perseus.tufts.edu.

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• Happiness is self-connectedness.

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  Self, Connectedness

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• In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

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  Art

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• Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

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  Philosophical, Law, Ought

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.63, Aristotle

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• The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.

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  Two, Three, Ontology

  "On the Heavens". Treatise by Aristotle (Book 1), 350 BC.

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• Adventure is worthwhile.

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  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

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• And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.

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  Lying, People, Produce

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• To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

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  Suicide, Running, Suicidal

  Nicomachean Ethics 3

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• Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

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  Life, Time, Memories

  "'Lettre d'Aristote à Alexandre sur la politique envers les cités' ('The Letter of Aristotle to Alexander on the Policy toward the Cities')". Arabic text translated and edited by Józef Bielawski and Marian Plezia, p. 72, 1970.

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• The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

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  Mankind, Insatiable, Avarice

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.58, Aristotle

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• Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.

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  Character, Vices, Causes

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.65, Wordsworth Editions

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• We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

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  Nature, Animal, Natural

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• We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

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  Science, Hands, Granted

  Aristotle (2016). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Evils draw men together.

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  Men, Evil, Together

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.43, Aeterna Press

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• Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

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  Thinking, Views, Order

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• We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.

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  Thinking, Elements, Immortality

  Aristotle, Roger Crisp (2000). “Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics”, p.196, Cambridge University Press

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• Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.

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  Math, Skills, Egypt

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• It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

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  Men, Matter, Firsts

  Metaphysics, bk.1, ch.2, 982 (translated by H Tredennick).

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• Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.

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  Mean, Two, Feelings

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.46, Wordsworth Editions

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• We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.

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  Arithmetic, Prove

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• Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

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  Passion, Heart, Men

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.112, Aristotle

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• A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

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  Soul, Three, Emotion

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.38, Wordsworth Editions

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