Aristotle Quotes - Page 42

• It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

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  Men, Special, Use

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.49, Aristotle

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• For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

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  Lying, Wish

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• All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.

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  Knowledge, Men, Sight

  Aristotle (1961). “The Metaphysics ...: with an English translation by Hugh Tredennick”

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• Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

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  Life, Philosophical, Fancy

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• Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.

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  Art, Son, Planning

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• [Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

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  Dream, Hope, Funny Inspirational

  "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laertius, p. 187, 1853.

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• What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.

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  Running, Men, People

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.18, Aeterna Press

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• We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Animal, Venture

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Parts of Animals”, p.27, Aeterna Press

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• As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.

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  Writing, Firsts, Details

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3458, Delphi Classics

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• The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life.

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  Animal, Understanding, Soul

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.1001, Delphi Classics

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• What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

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  Taken, Men, Care

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• Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.

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  Mean, Two, Circles

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.56

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• Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

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  Choices, Moral, Virtue

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• But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even though nobody will ever know it): and this condition is best fulfilled by his attitude towards himself - and similarly with all the other attributes that go to define a friend. For we have said before that all friendly feelings for others are extensions of a man's feelings for himself.

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  Attitude, Men, Feelings

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• When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

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  Mean, Ideas, Ends

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

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  Science, Engineering, Everyday

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• He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.

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  Benefits, Beloved, Philanthropy

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

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  Virtue, Masters, Prudence

  Aristotle (1850). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle: Tr. with Notes, Original & Selected; an Analytical Introduction; and Questions for the Use of Students”, p.162

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• Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.

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  Eye, People, Perception

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• Wit is cultured insolence.

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  Humor, Insolence, Wit

  Aristotle (1959). “Aristotle, with an English Translation: The "Art" of Rhetoric”

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• All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.

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  Eye, Men, Wish

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• I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Sin, Athenians

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.26, Catholic Way Publishing

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• What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.

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  Good Life, Successful, Agreement

  Aristotle, Renford Bambrough (1963). “The philosophy of aristotle, a new selection with an introd. and commentary by Renford Bambrough. New translations by A. E. Wardman and J. L. Creed”

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• The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

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  Style, Metaphor, Command

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• Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

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  Praise, Standards, Higher Standards

  Aristotle (1987). “The Nicomachean Ethics”

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