Aristotle Quotes - Page 40

• There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

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  Math, Circles, Strange

  Aristotle, (2014). “The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, One-Volume Digital Edition”, p.2254, Princeton University Press

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• One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.

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  Spring, Doe, April

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

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• Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

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  Inspirational, Art, Mean

  Aristotle, Hugh Griffith (2009). “Aristotle”, p.216, Collector's Library

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• ...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

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  Principles, Ethics, Moral

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• A human being is a naturally political [animal].

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  Animal, Political, Humans

  Aristotle, Terence Irwin (1996). “Aristotle: Introductory Readings”, p.290, Hackett Publishing

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• And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

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  War, Philosophy, May

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.209, Aeterna Press

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• A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

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  Philosophical, Constitution, States

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

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• I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

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  Fear, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.

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  People, Justice, Quality

  Aristotle (2003). “The Aristotle's Ethics: Nicomachean Ethics”, Spark Notes

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• Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.

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  Opposites, Justice, Decision

  Aristotle (1890). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric, Literally Tr. with Hobbes' Analysis, Examination Questions and an Appendix Containing the Greek Definitions: Also, The Poetic of Aristotle, Literally Tr., with a Selection of Notes, an Analysis, and Questions”

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• Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

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  Pain, Noble, Causes

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.36, Wordsworth Editions

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• When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.

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  Taken, Unjust, Stones

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

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• ...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the objections proper to the genus, and that he will be when he has gained an understanding of the differences.

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  Science, Differences, Views

  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.1731, Modern Library

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• Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.

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  Thinking, Knowing, Soul

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.1497, Catholic Way Publishing

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• In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

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  Men, Diversity, Events

  Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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• Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

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  Life, Political, Politics

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• Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there is no such thing as memory of the present while present, for the present is object only of perception, and the future, of expectation, but the object of memory is the past. All memory, therefore, implies a time elapsed; consequently only those animals which perceive time remember, and the organ whereby they perceive time is also that whereby they remember.

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  Memories, Animal, Past

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

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• Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.

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  Happiness, Lying, Order

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• Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

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  Passion, Human Nature, Reason

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.65

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• Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

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  Quality, Excess, Moral

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.35, Wordsworth Editions

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• Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

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  Nature, Great Poetry, Poetry Is

  "Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation".

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• He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

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  Brave, Fearless, Noble

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.82

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• It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

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  Happiness, Granted, Intellect

  Aristotle, Harris Rackham (1962). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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• The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula.

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  Art, Moving, Science

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1574, Princeton University Press

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• A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

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  Truth, History, Giving

  Aristotle, Longinus, Demetrius (of Phaleron) (1932). “The poetics”

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