Aristotle Quotes - Page 44

• When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.

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  Needs, Slave

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.

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  Mind, Demand, Accepting

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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• The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

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  Equality, Thinking, Democrat

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.120, Cambridge University Press

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• Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

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  Art, Choices, Inquiry

  Nicomachean Ethics, bk.1, ch.1,1093 (translated by Sir David Ross).

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• The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.

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  Common, Reason, Currency

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• No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

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  Men, Tyrants, Needs

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• That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

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  Justice, Judging, Office

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book II, 1270b.39,

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• Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

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  Differences, Essentials, Absence

  Aristotle, Preston Herschel Epps (1942). “The Poetics of Aristotle”, p.18, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

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  Government, Self, Creation

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.16, Aristotle

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• 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, May, Leisure

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1861, Princeton University Press

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• It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

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  Easier, Ability, Good Sense

  Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1823). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.4

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• 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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  Government, Community, Political

  Aristotle (2010). “Constitution of Athens and Related Texts”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• 1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes.

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  Definitions, Natural, Prime

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• If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

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  Government, Action, Virtue

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3120, Delphi Classics

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• There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

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  Men, Tyrants, Doubt

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.98, Aristotle

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• There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

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  Way, Adultery, Right Time

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• There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

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  Jobs, Men, Impossible

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• Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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  Courage, Brave

  "Nicomachean Ethics".

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• There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people, . .

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  Cutting, Errors, Law

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2080, Princeton University Press

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• In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.

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  Matter, Steps, Use

  Aristotle (1885). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

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  Life, Philosophy, Educational

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1094a.18,

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• The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

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  Maturity, Giving, Excellence

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• Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.

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  Two, Soul, Movement

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, p.1060, Catholic Way Publishing

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• If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

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  Moving, Atheism, Would Be

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• Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

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  Wisdom, Good Life, Acquisition

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