Aristotle Quotes - Page 6

• Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

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  Aristotle, Terence Irwin, Gail Fine (1995). “Aristotle: Selections”, p.415, Hackett Publishing

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• Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

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  Children, Pain, Learning

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• A person's life persuades better than his word.

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  Persons

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  The end of labor is to gain leisure.

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  Philosophy, Work, Tunnels

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• Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

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  Hope, Philosophical, Youth

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• What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Lying

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

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• Philosophy can make people sick.

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  Philosophy, People, Sick

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• He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

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  Single, Men, Worst Enemy

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• Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

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  Veterans Day, Military, American Veterans

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• All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

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  Action, Misery, Form

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• We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

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  Friendship, Wish, Should

  See Bible 225; Chesterfield 4; Confucius 9; Hillel 2

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• He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Insperational

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.86, Aristotle

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• Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

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  Anger, Age, Meanness

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• A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

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  Men, Beast, Harm

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

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• Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

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  Art, Type, Art Is

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• Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

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  Inspiration, Character, Emotion

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• Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.

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  Sweet, Fruit, Bitter

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• It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

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  Success, Education, Simplicity

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Bad men are full of repentance.

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  Philosophical, Men, Repentance

  Aristotle (1818). “The Rhetoric, Poetic, and Nicomachean Ethics: Of Aristotle”, p.340

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• Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love

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  Men, Good Man, Wicked

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• Peace is more difficult than war.

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  War, Difficult

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• The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

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  Single, Men, Silence

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• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.

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  Laughing, Faces, Bears

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• Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Educational

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