Aristotle Quotes - Page 19

• The complete man must work, study and wrestle.

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  Men, Study

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• Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

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  Would Be, Claims, Following

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• Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

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  Character, Purpose, Virtue

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.65

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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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• Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.

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  Garden, Soil

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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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• Every man should be responsible to others, nor should anyone be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man. But the principle of responsibility secures that which is the greatest good in states; the right persons rule and are prevented from doing wrong, and the people have their due. It is evident that this is the best kind of democracy, and why? because the people are drawn from a certain class.

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  Responsibility, Men, Class

  Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.169, Princeton University Press

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• We are what we repeatedly do.

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  Inspirational, Life, Powerful

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• To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

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  Sad, Suicide, Pain

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• Justice is Equality...but equality of what?

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  Justice

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• With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

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  Art, Requirements, Impossible

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• For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

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  Knowledge, Errors, Hands

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.107, Princeton University Press

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• The law is reason unaffected by desire.

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  Law, Desire, Reason

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.116, Aristotle

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• A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

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  Men, Mind, Littles

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• Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

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  Philosophy, Educational, Thinking

  Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

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  Art, Atheism, Woods

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• Anybody can get hit over the head.

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• The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are truly citizens, ought to participate in its advantages.

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  Views, Government, Citizens

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.71, Cambridge University Press

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• It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

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  Grateful, Views, Agreement

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

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• Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

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  Inspirational, Teenage, Philosophical

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• There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.

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  Life, Spring, Men

  "Rhetoric", II. 15. Par, III in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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  Philosophical, Mean, Pleasure

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2621, Delphi Classics

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• Perception starts with the eye.

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  Eye, Perception

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• ...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.

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  Mean, Opposites, Heaven

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• Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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  Best Friend, Friendship, Real Friends

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