Aristotle Quotes - Page 9

• We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.

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  Able, Action, Study

  "Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics".

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• Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

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  Believe, People, Desire

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• At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

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  Philosophy, Animal, Men

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• Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Humor

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• Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

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  Dog, Needs, Beast

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• In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

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  Life, Nature, Philosophical

  "Parts of Animals". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 645a.16,

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• The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

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  Life, Exercise, Science

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• Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

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  Pain, Fear, Philosophical

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• The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

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  Distraction, States, Factions

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• It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

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  Science, Physicians, Use

  Politics VII.ii

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• Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

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  Engagement, Activity, Highest

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• The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Yoga

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

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• Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

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  Educational, Fate, Empires

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• Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.

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  Animal, Political, Doe

  c.330 BC Politics, bk.1, ch.2,1253b (translated by T A Sinclair).

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• It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

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  Animal, Men, Political

  Politics bk. 1, 1253a

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• For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

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  Drinking, Mean, Exercise

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• Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.

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  Motivational, Mirrors, Way

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• For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

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  Adequate, Ifs

  Aristotle (1960). “Aristotle, the Physics”

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• There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.

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  Insanity, Genius

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• For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

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  Eye, Soul, Bats

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2327, Delphi Classics

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• Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

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  Teaching, Attention, Pay

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• All learning is derived from things previously known.

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  Learning, Known

  Aristotle (1871). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.155

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• We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

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  Mean, Desire, Should

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• Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.

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  Men, Views, Hands

  Aristotle (1857). “Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek”, p.4

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• Our characters are the result of our conduct.

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  Character, Personality, Results

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

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