Aristotle Quotes - Page 51

• Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.

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  Adventure, Sacrifice, Voice

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• The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this.

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  Government, Cities, Evil

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

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• Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.

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  Would Be, Citizens, Body

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.380, Simon and Schuster

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• If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

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  Men, Views, Sake

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• But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people and every large number. There are some whom it would be impossible: otherwise the theory would apply to wild animals- and yet some men are hardly any better than wild animals.

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  Men, Animal, Numbers

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• It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

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  Science, Demand, Logic

  Aristotle (2009). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.4, OUP Oxford

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• We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.

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  Thinking, Psychics, Soul

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.33, Aeterna Press

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• The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.

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  Numbers, Political, Democracy

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• In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the customary law.

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  Mean, Men, Law

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.116, Aristotle

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• It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.

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  Law, Justice, Judging

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

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• Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach.

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  Men, Way, Logic

  Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1823). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.1

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• Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in itself, is able to obey such a principle. And we call a man in any way good because he has the virtues of these two parts.

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  Men, Two, Soul

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2115, Princeton University Press

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• For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.

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  Nature, Science, Passing Away

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.551, Princeton University Press

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• We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.

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  Order, Opposites, Practice

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• The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

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  Ignorance, Men, Principles

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• There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government.

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  Names, Two, Generic Name

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the "why" in the way proper to his science-the matter, the form, the mover, that for the sake of which.

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  Science, Research, Four

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.338, Princeton University Press

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• Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

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  Demand, Want, Arguing

  Aristotle (2012). “The Metaphysics”, p.48, Roger Bishop Jones

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• When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

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  Government, Names, Generic Name

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.

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  Law, Organization, Office

  Aristotle, Hugh Griffith (2009). “Aristotle”, p.273, Collector's Library

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• The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.

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  Good Life, Men, Race

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2103, Princeton University Press

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• For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.

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  Summer, Winter, Quality

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3166, Delphi Classics

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