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Aristotle Quotes - Page 21

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There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to

There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.

Thinking, Two, Soul

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.65, Aeterna Press

For good is simple, evil manifold.

Simple, Evil, Manifold

Aristotle (1971). “On Man in the Universe”

There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.

Cups, Lips, Slips

Love is the cause of unity in all things.

Love, Unity, Causes

Aristotle (1933). “Oeconomica”

All communication must lead to change

Communication

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

Wish, Sake, Good Wishes

Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Happy Life, Effort, Amusement

Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Eye, Soul, Bats

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

All that we do is done with an eye to something else.

Eye, Thinking, Done

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

Men, Order, Opinion

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

If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

Numbers, Government, Law

Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.4626, Catholic Way Publishing

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Courageous, Cowardly

Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

Men, Birth, Moments

A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.

Body, Bodies In Motion, Contact

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

Destiny, Choices, Chance

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

Past, Times Past, Deprived

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Life, Success, Philosophical

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

Mean, Two, Goodness

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

Nature, Vain, Incomplete

Politics bk. 1, 1256b

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

Purpose, Accidents

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Wise, Writing, Men

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

Kings, Tyrants, Lists

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". P. 825, 1922.

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

Enemy, Common, Danger

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2071, Princeton University Press

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Life, Nature, Philosophical

"Parts of Animals". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 645a.16,

Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.

Should Have, Justice, Demand

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