Aristotle Quotes - Page 43

• Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

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  Doe, Needs, Use

  Aristotle (2016). “Physics”, p.82, Aristotle

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• If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

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  Government, Action, Virtue

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3120, Delphi Classics

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• The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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  Wisdom, Philosophical, Justice

  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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• Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

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  Wise, Men, Thinking

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• Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

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  Mean, Two, Choices

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• What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

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  Character, Anxiety, Political

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

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• Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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  Men, Reverence

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• When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.

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  Needs, Slave

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• If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

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  Life, Philosophy, Educational

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1094a.18,

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.

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  Mind, Demand, Accepting

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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• Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

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  Art, Choices, Inquiry

  Nicomachean Ethics, bk.1, ch.1,1093 (translated by Sir David Ross).

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• That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

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  Justice, Judging, Office

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book II, 1270b.39,

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• There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

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  Men, Tyrants, Doubt

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.98, Aristotle

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• There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

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  Way, Adultery, Right Time

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• Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.

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  Two, Soul, Movement

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, p.1060, Catholic Way Publishing

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• The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.

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  Common, Reason, Currency

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• If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

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  Moving, Atheism, Would Be

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• It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

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  Easier, Ability, Good Sense

  Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1823). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.4

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• He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.

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  Benefits, Beloved, Philanthropy

  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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• A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

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  Men, Bravery, Clear

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• A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.

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  Government, Political, Noble

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book III, 1280b.30 - 1281a.3,

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• For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.

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  Science, Fire, Two

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.505, Princeton University Press

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• Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.

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  Opposites, Decision, Employment

  Aristotle, John Henry Freese (1926). “Aristotle: the art of rhetoric”, Loeb Classical Library

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• A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.

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  Writing, Mean, Style

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• There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

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  Virtue, Masters, Prudence

  Aristotle (1850). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle: Tr. with Notes, Original & Selected; an Analytical Introduction; and Questions for the Use of Students”, p.162

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