Aristotle Quotes - Page 23

• We are what we continually do.

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• The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

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  Passion, Tragedy, Ends

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• The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

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  Gymnastics, People, Principles

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• The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.

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  Blood, Goats, Diamond

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• A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

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  Exercise, Association, Employment

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• When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

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  Storytelling, Results, Decadence

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• Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.

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  Should Have, Justice, Demand

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• Evil draws men together.

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  Men, Evil, Together

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• A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

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  Fear, Tragedy, Catharsis

  Poetics ch. 6, 1449b

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• I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.

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  Knows

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• In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

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  Purpose, Accidents

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• A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.

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  Cities, Wells, Ifs

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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• Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

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  Men, Good Man, Moral

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• Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

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  Intelligent, Dignity, Talent

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• The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

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  Wine, Men, Young

  Aristotle (1886). “The Rhetoric of Aristotle”

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• People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

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  People, Together, Salt

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• A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.

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  Ends, Middle, Whole

  Poetics ch. 7, 1450b

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• Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.

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  Two, Soul, Body

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• Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

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  People, Democracy, Excess

  'Politics' bk. 1, sect. 4, 1296a

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• The law is reason, free from passion.

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  Philosophical, Passion, Law

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book III, 1287a.32,

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• Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

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  Jealousy, Men, Envy

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• Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

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  Unique, Acorns, Fulfilled

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• They should rule who are able to rule best.

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  Government, Able, Should

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2020, Princeton University Press

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• Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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  Philosophical, History, Poetry

  "Poetics". Book by Aristotle, 1451b, 6, 335 BCE.

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• It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

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  Should Have, Easy, Should

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.393, Simon and Schuster

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