Aristotle Quotes - Page 41

• Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only say: May our state be constituted in such a manner as to be blessed with the goods of which fortune disposes (for we acknowledge her power): whereas virtue and goodness in the state are not a matter of chance but the result of knowledge and purpose. A city can be virtuous only when the citizens who have a share in the government are virtuous, and in our state all the citizens share in the government.

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  Blessed, Government, Hands

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3135, Delphi Classics

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• With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

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  Music, Facts, Notes

  Aristotle, Robert C. Bartlett, Susan D. Collins (2012). “Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

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• We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

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  People, Evil, Second Best

  Aristotle (1983). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

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  May, Revolution, Rebellious

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• Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.

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  Sports, Men, People

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• ...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

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  Words Of Wisdom, Principles, Movement

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• The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.

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  Animal, Soul, Special

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.146, Wordsworth Editions

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• I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Sin, Athenians

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.26, Catholic Way Publishing

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• What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.

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  Good Life, Successful, Agreement

  Aristotle, Renford Bambrough (1963). “The philosophy of aristotle, a new selection with an introd. and commentary by Renford Bambrough. New translations by A. E. Wardman and J. L. Creed”

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• One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.

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  Fall, Play, Justice

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1784, Princeton University Press

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• People generally despise where they flatter.

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  People, Flattery, Despise

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• The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the parts of the body or of any other divisible whole are distinct, or whether though distinguishable in thought as two they are inseparable in reality, like the convex and concave of a curve, is a question of no importance for the matter in hand.)

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  Reality, Curves, Hands

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

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• Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good."

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  Goal, Meaning Of Life, Done

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, circa 349 BC.

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• For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

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  Vices, Lines, Riches

  Aristotle (2015). “Politics”, p.164, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not

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  Arms, Constitution, Position

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• The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.

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  Choices, Abortion, Alive

  Aristotle (1944). “Politics”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

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  Praise, Standards, Higher Standards

  Aristotle (1987). “The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• ...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.

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  Simple, Long, Evil

  Aristotle (1963). “The Politics of Aristotle”

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• There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

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  Math, Circles, Strange

  Aristotle, (2014). “The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, One-Volume Digital Edition”, p.2254, Princeton University Press

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• The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

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  True Friend, Character, People

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.160, Cambridge University Press

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• Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.

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  Eye, People, Perception

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• Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for 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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  Mean, Men, Practice

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

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• When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

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  Lonely, War, Play

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• Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

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  Differences, Essentials, Absence

  Aristotle, Preston Herschel Epps (1942). “The Poetics of Aristotle”, p.18, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

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  Equality, Thinking, Democrat

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.120, Cambridge University Press

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