Aristotle Quotes - Page 24

• Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

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  Ignorance, Men, Errors

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.63

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• Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

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  Philosophical, Character, Mean

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.26, Aeterna Press

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• Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!

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  Men, Two, Sick

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• The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

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  Children, Growth, Mind

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.396, Simon and Schuster

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• He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.

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  Gratitude, Pain, Honor

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• Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth.

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  Education, Mother, Children

  Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.208, Princeton University Press

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• Cruel is the strife of brothers.

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  Brother, Strife

  "Fictional character: Aaron Hotchner". "Criminal Minds". Season 8, Episode 23: "Brothers Hotchner", www.imdb.com. May 22, 2013.

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• The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.

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  Happiness, Men, He Man

  Aristotle (1955). “The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.

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  Soul, Principles, Different

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Politics”, p.28, Aeterna Press

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• Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

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  Art, Nature, Environment

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• Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.

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  Pain, Men, Law

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• For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet.

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  Philosophy, Names, Medicine

  Aristotle (1815). “Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry”, p.66

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• There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced. Make a vessel of wax and put it in the sea, fastening its mouth in such a way as to prevent any water getting in. Then the water that percolates through the wax sides of the vessel is sweet, the earthy stuff, the admixture of which makes the water salt, being separated off as it were by a filter.

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  Sweet, Science, Sea

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.583, Princeton University Press

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• Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.

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  Justice, Stronger, Asking

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3104, Delphi Classics

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• And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

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  Men, Evil, Unjust

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.16, Aristotle

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• It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.

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  Two, Government, Citizens

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.

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  Life Is

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• All things are full of gods.

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  All Things

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.1984, Modern Library

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• Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

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  Happiness, Happy, Mean

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3126, Delphi Classics

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• Friendship is communion.

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  Friendship, Communion

  Aristotle (1871). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.260

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• A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

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  Government, Election, Made

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

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  Soul And Body, Shapes, States

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• To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

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  Confusing

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2368, Delphi Classics

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• One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

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  Children, Parent, Citizens

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2008, Princeton University Press

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• The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

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  Eye, Writing, Genius

  Aristotle (2015). “Poetics”, p.46, Xist Publishing

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