Aristotle Quotes - Page 42

• It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

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  Desire, Mankind, Possession

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.57, Aristotle

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• Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

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  Ornaments, Shame, Young

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". P. 702, 1922.

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• To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

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  Education, Teaching, Men

  Aristotle (1812). “Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry”, p.108

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• No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

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  Men, Tyrants, Needs

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• All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.

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  Eye, Men, Wish

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• For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

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  Artist, Player, Men

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2578, Delphi Classics

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• In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.

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  Matter, Steps, Use

  Aristotle (1885). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.

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  Body, Definitions, Infinite

  Aristotle (2016). “Physics”, p.73, Aristotle

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• Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

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  Men, Special, Demand

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2329, Princeton University Press

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• Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct.

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  Philosophy, Mean, Men

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

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• Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.

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  Animal, Men, Diversity

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• If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.

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  Men, Soul, Good Man

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1098a,

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• The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook

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  Judging, Guests, Cooks

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

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• Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

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  War, May, Leisure

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1861, Princeton University Press

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• For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

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  Philosophical, Ignorance, Knowledge

  "Metaphysics". Book by Aristotle (982b10), later published in "The Basic Works of Aristotle" edited by Richard McKeon (p. 692), 1941.

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• The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

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  Government, Self, Creation

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

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• Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

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  Essence, Substance, Study

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• The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

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  Style, Metaphor, Command

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• There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

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  Jobs, Men, Impossible

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• That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

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  Government, Subjects

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.

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  Arithmetic, Prove

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• Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

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  Witty, Equality, Men

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.160, Aristotle

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• Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution.

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  Children, Eye, Differences

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• Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all they should provide against their own enslavement, and in the second place obtain empire for the good of the governed, and not for the sake of exercising a general despotism, and in the third place they should seek to be masters only over those who deserve to be slaves.

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  War, Exercise, Men

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

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  Men, Tragedy, Action

  Aristotle, Gerald Frank Else (1970). “Poetics”, p.27, University of Michigan Press

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