Aristotle Quotes - Page 33

• Happiness is self-connectedness.

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  Self, Connectedness

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• Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

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  Art, Artist, Giving

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• We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

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  Lying, Aging, Conformity

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• No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Philosophical

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

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• ... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in goodness because of their association. They seem even to become better men by exercising their friendship and improving each other; for the traits that they admire in each other get transferred to themselves.

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  Exercise, Men, People

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• Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.

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  Pain, Hate, Anger

  Aristotle (1924). “The Works of Aristotle”

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• All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

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  Lying, Deceit, Gains

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

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  Sake, Wealth, Making Money

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1732, Princeton University Press

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• One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.

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  Mean, Names, Honor

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• Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

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  Diversity, Mankind, Character Education

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• Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

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  Mean, Two, Vices

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• In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

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  Pain, Pleasure, Rudders

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.198, Aeterna Press

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• Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the other prevails they form the government. Hence arises the common opinion that there are two kinds of government - democracy and oligarchy.

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  Two, Numbers, Government

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2050, Princeton University Press

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• Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

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  Science, Growth, Growing

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• To perceive is to suffer.

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  Life, Depression, Education

  Aristotle (2004). “The Works of Aristotle: Aristotle on the parts & progressive motion of animals, the problems, on indivisible lines to which is added Thomas Taylor's The elements of the true arithmetic of infinites”

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• The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

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  Children, Men, Desire

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

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• .. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

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  Men, Law, Political

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• Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

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  Sweet, Teenage, People

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• Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

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  Power, Law, Long

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• Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.

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  Greatness, Thinking, Luxury

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2945, Delphi Classics

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• When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

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  Class, People, Vices

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

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• Evils draw men together.

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  Men, Evil, Together

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.43, Aeterna Press

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• It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

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  Men, Inability, Use

  "Poetics and Rhetoric".

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• Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.

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  Law, Way, Earning

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• The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation.

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  Two, Soul, Principles

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.145, Wordsworth Editions

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