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Aristotle Quotes - Page 13

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Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

Responsibility, Self, Sufficiency

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

Mean, May, Persuasion

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.25, Aeterna Press

The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

Art, Reality, Purpose

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Life, Philosophical, Survival

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

Men, Born, Nature Of Man

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

Forgiveness, Hate, Punishment

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2947, Delphi Classics

Happiness is activity.

Happiness, Laughter, Joy

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Kindness, Justice, Black

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

It is likely that unlikely things should happen

Unlikely, Should, Happens

Aristotle, George Maximilian Anthony Grube, Donald J. Zeyl (1958). “On Poetry and Style”, p.60, Hackett Publishing

All men are alike when asleep.

Men, Essence

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

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

Happiness, Expression, Joy

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

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

Children, Pain, Learning

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Atheist, Believe, Moving

"Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book V, 1314b.39,

Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

Music, Passion, Character

A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

Freedom, Exercise, Men

And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

Mother, Invention, Creator

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

Family, Nature, Men

"Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens".

The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.

Beautiful, Pieces, Size

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.462, Simon and Schuster

The probable is what usually happens.

Investing, Happens

In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail in attaining them, as indeed I have already explained. Democracy, for example, 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.

Men, Sprung Up, Justice

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

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Art, Lying, Taught

Aristotle (2015). “Poetics”, p.50, Xist Publishing

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

Prosperity, Virtue

Bad men are full of repentance.

Philosophical, Men, Repentance

Aristotle (1818). “The Rhetoric, Poetic, and Nicomachean Ethics: Of Aristotle”, p.340

Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

Movement, Time Management, Management

We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.

Littles, Our Actions, Habit

Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.80

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