Aristotle Quotes - Page 17

• Wickedness is nourished by lust.

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  Lust, Wickedness

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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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• 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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• 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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• Beauty is a gift of God.

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  Beauty, Gift From God

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• True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

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  Happiness, Flow, Virtue

  Aristotle (2012). “Politics”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

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  Community, Citizens, Common

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.84, Aristotle

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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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• Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

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  Character, Meditation, Mind

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.364, Simon and Schuster

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• Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

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  Words Of Wisdom, Starting, Metaphysics

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• Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

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  Happiness, Perfect, Soul

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.22, Wordsworth Editions

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• If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.

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  Character, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.69, Aeterna Press

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• Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

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  Business, Toil, Doe

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• The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.

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  Eye, Temptation, Listening

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• Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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  Courage, Philosophical, Mean

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, 3.6,

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• The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .

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  Soul, Perception, Growth

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• To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

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  Thinking, Justice, Diversity

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• The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

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  True Nature, Highest

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• Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

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  Hero, Tragedy, Excess

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• The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.

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  Beautiful, Pieces, Size

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.462, Simon and Schuster

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• Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

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  Men, Opinion, Knows

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

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• Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

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  Imagination, Soul, Belief

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.67, Aeterna Press

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• For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

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  Inspiring, Teaching, Learning

  "Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics". Books II-IV,

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• Human beings are curious by nature.

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  Educational, Curious, Humans

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