Aristotle Quotes - Page 43

• ...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.

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  Simple, Long, Evil

  Aristotle (1963). “The Politics of Aristotle”

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• Wit is educated insolence.

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  Inspirational, Witty, Humorous

  Aristotle (1909). “The Rhetoric of Aristotle: A Translation”

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• It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

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  Desire, Mankind, Possession

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.57, Aristotle

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• If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.

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  Body, Definitions, Infinite

  Aristotle (2016). “Physics”, p.73, Aristotle

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• Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct.

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  Philosophy, Mean, Men

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

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• Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.

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  Animal, Men, Diversity

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• The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

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  True Friend, Character, People

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.160, Cambridge University Press

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• If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.

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  Men, Soul, Good Man

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1098a,

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• Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

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  Ornaments, Shame, Young

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". P. 702, 1922.

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• With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

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  Music, Facts, Notes

  Aristotle, Robert C. Bartlett, Susan D. Collins (2012). “Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

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• For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

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  Artist, Player, Men

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2578, Delphi Classics

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• Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

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  Men, Special, Demand

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2329, Princeton University Press

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• Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

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  Essence, Substance, Study

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• Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

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  Witty, Equality, Men

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.160, Aristotle

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• That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

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  Government, Subjects

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

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  Wonder, Humans, Has Beens

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• Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

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  Mean, Men, Practice

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

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• Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

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  Men, Tragedy, Action

  Aristotle, Gerald Frank Else (1970). “Poetics”, p.27, University of Michigan Press

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• Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

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  Doe, Needs, Use

  Aristotle (2016). “Physics”, p.82, Aristotle

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• Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution.

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  Children, Eye, Differences

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• For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

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  Philosophical, Ignorance, Knowledge

  "Metaphysics". Book by Aristotle (982b10), later published in "The Basic Works of Aristotle" edited by Richard McKeon (p. 692), 1941.

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• Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

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  Wise, Men, Thinking

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• What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

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  Character, Anxiety, Political

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

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• Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

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  Mean, Two, Choices

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• Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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  Men, Reverence

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