Aristotle Quotes - Page 34

• Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

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  Philosopher, Lovers, Wonder

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• The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

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  Life, Inspire, Excellence

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1860, Princeton University Press

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• Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

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  Life, Time, Memories

  "'Lettre d'Aristote à Alexandre sur la politique envers les cités' ('The Letter of Aristotle to Alexander on the Policy toward the Cities')". Arabic text translated and edited by Józef Bielawski and Marian Plezia, p. 72, 1970.

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• Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

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  Government, Discipline, Office

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• Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.

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  Play, Political, Special

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• This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.

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  Astrology, World, This World

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• In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions at all, or are the worst of all. But they are nearer the truth who combine many forms; for the constitution is better which is made up of more numerous elements. The constitution proposed in the Laws has no element of monarchy at all; it is nothing but oligarchy and democracy, leaning rather to oligarchy.

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  Law, Government, Democracy

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

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• There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

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  Soul, Principles, Elements

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

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  Thinking, Divinity, Excellent

  Aristotle (2012). “The Metaphysics”, p.193, Roger Bishop Jones

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• Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.

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  Practice, Virtue

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• Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

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  Spring, Civilization, Issues

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• In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

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  Men, Diversity, Events

  Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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• Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

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  Health, Giving, Rising

  Economics I

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• In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

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  Life, Friendship, True Friend

  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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• Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

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  Art, Philosophy, Tendencies

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• Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Desirable

  "Topics".

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• Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

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  Men, Melancholy, Great Men

  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 angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

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  Men, Angry Man, Hatred

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• It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'

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  Plato, Teaching, Giving

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• Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

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  Selfishness, Degrees, Bigs

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• Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

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  Love, Inspirational, Heartbreak

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• ...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the objections proper to the genus, and that he will be when he has gained an understanding of the differences.

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  Science, Differences, Views

  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.1731, Modern Library

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• Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

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  Soul, Virtue, Nicomachean Ethics

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.30

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• Every realm of nature is marvelous.

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  Realms, Marvelous

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, p.1872, Catholic Way Publishing

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• The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

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  Math, Principles, Firsts

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