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Aristotle Quotes - Page 24

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Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!

Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!

Men, Two, Sick

It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.

May, Philosopher, Prosperous

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth.

Education, Mother, Children

Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.208, Princeton University Press

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

Metaphor, Halfway, Commonplace

The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man

Funny Relationship, Men, Age

It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.

Education, Son, Parent

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.391, Simon and Schuster

The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.

Happiness, Men, He Man

Aristotle (1955). “The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics”

The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.

Life Changing, True Nature, Highest

for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

Philosophical, Order, Inquiry

Aristotle (2016). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

Real, Thinking, Soul

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

Happiness, Exercise, Opposites

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. For this reason it cannot reasonably be regarded as blended with the body

Real, Mean, Thinking

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.69, Aeterna Press

A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

Taken, May, Speech

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.12, Aeterna Press

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Money, People, Greek

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.

Happiness, Men, Order

Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

Soul And Body, Shapes, States

Friendship is communion.

Friendship, Communion

Aristotle (1871). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.260

All things are full of gods.

All Things

Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.1984, Modern Library

In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

Attachment, Order, Needs

To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

Confusing

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2368, Delphi Classics

One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Children, Parent, Citizens

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2008, Princeton University Press

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

Happiness, Men, Opposites

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3134, Delphi Classics

There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.

Animal, Men, Opposites

For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

Inspirational, Sports, Choices

A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.

Vision, Body, Vivid

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