Aristotle Quotes About Unity

• Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.

  Aristotle

  Unity, Division

• Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

  Aristotle

  Order, Unity, Principles

• The structural unity of the parts is such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and dis­turbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference is not an organic part of the whole.

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  Differences, Unity, Absence

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

• Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

  Aristotle

  Beauty, Beautiful, Confused

• But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.

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  Moving, Numbers, Unity

• The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only. For there is a point at which a state may attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state, or at which, without actually ceasing to exist, it will become an inferior state, like harmony passing into unison, or rhythm which has been reduced to a single foot. The state, as I was saying, is a plurality which should be united and made into a community by education

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  Errors, Feet, Community

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

• Love is the cause of unity in all things.

  Aristotle

  Love, Unity, Causes

  Aristotle (1933). “Oeconomica”

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