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Aristotle Quotes - Page 17

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Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

Imagination, Soul, Belief

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.67, Aeterna Press

Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

Beauty, People, May

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

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

Running, Law, Anarchy

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

Character, Meditation, Mind

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.364, Simon and Schuster

Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.

Character, Mind, Three

There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . .

Differences, Errors, Government

Aristotle (2012). “Politics”, p.263, Courier Corporation

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

Character, People, Action

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

Men, Sake, He Man

Aristotle (2012). “The Metaphysics”, p.4, Roger Bishop Jones

A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.

Soul, Body, Shapes

The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

True Nature, Highest

In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional rule; for the soul rules the body with a despotical rule, whereas the intellect rules the appetites with a constitutional and royal rule. And it is clear that the rule of the soul over the body, and of the mind and the rational element over the passionate, is natural and expedient; whereas the equality of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful.

Two, Evil, Soul

Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.7, Princeton University Press

Law is mind without reason.

Law, Mind, Reason

Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.

Children, Race, Would Be

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

Mean, Incidents, Myth

Either a beast or a god.

God, Beast

Politics bk. 1, 1253a

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

Law, Desire, Reason

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.116, Aristotle

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Inspiring, Teaching, Learning

"Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics". Books II-IV,

For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

Knowledge, Errors, Hands

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.107, Princeton University Press

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

Happiness, Flow, Virtue

Aristotle (2012). “Politics”, p.20, Courier Corporation

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

Affection, Habit

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Economics”, p.13, Aeterna Press

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

Grateful, Views, Agreement

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2327, Delphi Classics

We are what we frequently do.

Character, Personal Growth

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

Inferiors, Flatterer

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.215, Wordsworth Editions

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

Government, Democracy, Aristocracy

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.91, Aristotle

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

Light, Soul, Reason

Aristotle (1926). “Aristotle, with an English Translation: The "Art" of Rhetoric”

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