Aristotle Quotes - Page 41

• It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.

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  Exercise, Justice, Ethics

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• It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

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  Happiness, Exercise, Soul

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

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• For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

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  Ethics, Contemplation, Form

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• Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

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  Men, Good Man, Excellence

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.39, Wordsworth Editions

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• And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.

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  Heart, Views, Brain

  Aristotle, Arthur Leslie Peck (1961). “Parts of animals”, Loeb Classical Library

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• That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.

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  Thinking, Numbers, Selfishness

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.44, Aristotle

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• Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.

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  Mean, Missing, Feelings

  Aristotle, Terence Irwin, Gail Fine (1995). “Aristotle: Selections”, p.373, Hackett Publishing

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• Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all they should provide against their own enslavement, and in the second place obtain empire for the good of the governed, and not for the sake of exercising a general despotism, and in the third place they should seek to be masters only over those who deserve to be slaves.

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  War, Exercise, Men

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• We become just by the practice of just actions.

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  Practice, Action

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• The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

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  Water, Democracy, Littles

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2041, Princeton University Press

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• If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

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  Art, Nature, Men

  Aristotle (1960). “Aristotle, the Physics”

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• For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

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  Missing, Wish, Citizens

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.503, Simon and Schuster

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• Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance.

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  Moving, Cutting, Science

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• It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

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  Words Of Wisdom, Principles, Causes

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• What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.

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  Knowledge, Unqualified, Eternity

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1799, Princeton University Press

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• He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.

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  Courage, Way, Endure

  Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Xenophanes states that the fire in Lipara once failed for sixteen years, but returned in the seventeenth year. They say that the lava-stream in Etna is neither flaming nor continuous, but returns only after an interval of many years.

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  Fire, Years, Sixteen

  "De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus". Book by Aristotle, edited by Laurence D Dowdall, archive.org. 1909.

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• In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

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  Mean, Hypnosis, Speech

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.148, Aeterna Press

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• So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.

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  Women, Males, Negative

  Aristotle (1853). “The Politics and Economics of Aristotle”

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• When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

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  Lonely, War, Play

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• Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

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  Real, Men, Wish

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1846, Princeton University Press

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• Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.

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  Sex, Funny Marriage, Bachelors

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• Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy

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  Untrustworthy, May, Torture

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• Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

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  Nature, Children, Science

  Historia Animalium VIII.I (transl. D. W. Thompson)

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• Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

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  Wisdom, Men, Attention

  Aristotle,, Sir Ernest Barker, R. F. Stalley (2009). “The Politics”, p.42, Oxford University Press

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