Aristotle Quotes - Page 9

• Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.

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  Men, Evil, Human Nature

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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• Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Gratitude

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• What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Lying

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

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• Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

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  Anger, Way, Fool

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1777, Princeton University Press

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• Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high station, and is the prize awarded for the noblest deeds; and such a thing is honor, for honor is clearly the greatest of external goods.

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  Men, Honor, Deeds

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• We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.

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  Laughing, Faces, Bears

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• A friend is another I.

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  Friendship

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• A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

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  Men, Ought

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.244, Wordsworth Editions

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• The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.

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  Hands, Unions, Littles

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• Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.

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  Happiness, Men, Order

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• All proofs rest on premises.

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  Proof, Premises

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• It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

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  Peace, War, Winning

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• Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

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  Time, Power, Lapses

  Aristotle (1960). “Aristotle, the Physics”

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• You should never think without an image.

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  Thinking, Should

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• The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.

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  Spring, Exercise, Men

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• People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

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  Wise, People, Effort

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• Either a beast or a god.

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  God, Beast

  Politics bk. 1, 1253a

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• Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Humor

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• All art is concerned with coming into being.

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  Art, Art Is, Concerned

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1800, Princeton University Press

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• Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

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  Yellow, Gold, Objects

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• The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

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  Firsts, Gateways, Senses

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• All men are alike when asleep.

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  Men, Essence

  Aristotle (2011). “The Eudemian Ethics”, p.17, OUP Oxford

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• The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.

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  Soul, Ends, Goods

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• Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Educational

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• Law is order, and good law is good order.

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  Order, Law, Rule Of Law

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Politics”, p.181, Aeterna Press

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