Aristotle Quotes - Page 16

• Happiness is activity.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

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  Pain, Perception, Desire

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• We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

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  Courage, Philosophical, Brave

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• Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.

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  Baby, Mean, Way

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• Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

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  Prosperity, Virtue

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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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• The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

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  Life, Death, Education

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

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• We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

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  Mean, Acceptance, Ends

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.59, Wordsworth Editions

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• We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.

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  Littles, Our Actions, Habit

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.80

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• Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

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  Mean, May, Persuasion

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.25, Aeterna Press

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• Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.

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  Money, Guarantees That, Desire

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• In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

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  Philosophy, Educational, Tasks

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.48, Aeterna Press

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• Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

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  Liberty, Beloved, Virtue

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• Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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  Courage, Peace, Bravery

  "Nichomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, Book II, c. 325 BC.

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• All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

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  Teaching, Knowledge, Intellectual

  Aristotle, (2014). “The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, One-Volume Digital Edition”, p.208, Princeton University Press

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• I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

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  Inspirational, Men, Practice

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.597, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Adventure

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

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• And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

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  Education, Passion, Reason

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.279, Wordsworth Editions

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• Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

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  Happiness, Expression, Joy

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

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• The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

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  Art, Reality, Purpose

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• It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but also because heavy bodies forcibly thrown quite straight upward return to the point from which they started, even if they are thrown to an infinite distance. From these considerations then it is clear that the earth does not move and does not lie elsewhere than at the centre.

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  Lying, Moving, Science

  "The Essential Aristotle".

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• The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

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  Good Life, Sake, States

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• A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.

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  Two, Soul, Body

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• Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

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  Happiness, Independence, May

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• Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

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  Business, Action, Virtue

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

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