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Aristotle Quotes - Page 26

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Men create the gods after their own images.

Men create the gods after their own images.

Men, Religion, Atheism

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

Thinking, Desire, Divine

Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.

Character, Soul, Theatre

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

Men, Principles, Proportion

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.177, Aristotle

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

Greatness, Soul, Ornaments

Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.

Character, Way, Faces

When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.

Running, Adventure, Men

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1763, Princeton University Press

The soul is the form of the body

Soul, Body, Form

Aristotle (1993). “De Anima: Books II and III (with passages from Book I)”, p.157, Clarendon Press

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

Happiness, Suggestions, Virtue

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

Destiny, Men, May

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

The first principle of all action is leisure.

Principles, Leisure, Firsts

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2122, Princeton University Press

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

Tragedy, Action, Ends

Aristotle, Demetrius (of Phaleron) (1953). “Aristotle: the Poetics: "Longinus": On the Sublime. Demetrius On Style”

The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the same thing both is and is not, and is bad and good, and that the contents of all other opposite statements are true, because often a particular thing appears beautiful to some and ugly to others, and that which appears to each man is the measure

Beautiful, Men, Views

Aristotle (2016). “Metaphysics”, p.274, Aristotle

The intention makes the crime.

Integrity, Hypocrisy, Identity

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Love, Friendship, Family

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

Hard Work, Science, Differences

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Philosophical, Age, Ornaments

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

Pursuit Of Happiness, Law, Community

A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

Soul, Three, Emotion

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.38, Wordsworth Editions

It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.

Doubt, Wish, Objects

Aristotle (2013). “The Metaphysics”, p.41, Courier Corporation

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

Wise, Men, Details

Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.

Beautiful, Wise, Lying

Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

Education, Men, Years

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2118, Princeton University Press

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

Climbing, Insanity, Anarchy

The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.

Two, Three, Ontology

"On the Heavens". Treatise by Aristotle (Book 1), 350 BC.

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